I'd give her one....

[Gob]

...a vote that is....

Zahra Stardust is a human rights lawyer, Miss Nude Australia Pole Dance Champion 2012 and a porn actress, but come Saturday she hopes to also be lord mayor of the City of Sydney.



A so-called sex-positive feminist, Ms Stardust is using her experience in the adult entertainment industry to further her passions in politics - as you do.

"At a local government level, I'm particularly passionate about anti-discrimination against the sex business," Ms Stardust told The Diary's I've-seen-it-all-now correspondent, Dominic Bossi.

"Our policies translate to things like the extension of legal injecting rooms beyond Kings Cross, [abolishing] sniffer dogs on public streets.''


Ms Stardust will hit the streets in the coming days to ensure voters are fully aware of the party's policies: ''Sexual education curriculum, ensuring that there are anti-discrimination protections based on people on the basis of occupation, removing the GST tax on tampons and, at a state level, protecting decriminalisation of sex workers in NSW."

Her campaign for lord mayor of Sydney will be her second election campaign. She ran as a candidate in the seat of Bradfield in the 2009 federal byelection.

Ms Stardust will be joined on the Australian Sex Party's ticket by a former policeman, Andrew Patterson, along with Graeme Dunne, Geoffrey Thomas and Robyn Trigg, as the party's candidates for the City of Sydney.

[The Hen]

When my thoughts turn to luxury, surprisingly none of them involves tampons.

The luxury tax should be immediately removed from tampons, even if I don't have to buy any anymore.

Why a candidate has to highlight such a ludicrous tax is beyond me. Get your act together Government. Remove the GST component from all sanitary products.

[MajGenl.Meade]

"I'm particularly passionate about anti-discrimination against the sex business," Ms Stardust (said). "Our policies translate to things like . . . [abolishing] sniffer dogs on public streets.''

Who will speak for the dogs? Must this woman insist upon discriminating against their sexual proclivities?

Meade

[oldr_n_wsr]

A luzxury tax on tampons????
Do not let the US government hear about this.

[Gob]

[The Hen]

And all sluts are women, and nearly every woman for a span of approximately 30 - 50 years will require a product to deal with her menstral cycle. What's more, she will need that product for approximately three to seven days every twenty-eight days more or less. (Though average cycles for each woman can vary dramatically from that.)

There should be no tax placed on the 'most' desired method for dealing with a period.

[Sue U]

... nearly every woman for a span of approximately 30 - 50 years will require a product to deal with her menstral cycle. What's more, she will need that product for approximately three to seven days every twenty-eight days more or less.

You have to admit, it's one helluva business model.

[oldr_n_wsr]

[The Hen]

Heh. I had to consider women such as myself who never fell in the 'average' bucket.

Seven days, every fourteen days.

What's more, it was more like a tsunami which saw me disposing of 50 tampons and 14 sanitary napkins for each occurrence.

You can understand why I deeply resented paying a luxury tax.

Glad I found myself a suitable tax haven.

[Long Run]

Glad I found myself a suitable tax haven

Is that what you're calling Gob these days.

[The Hen]

No. That's what I call my hysterectomy.

[rubato]

... nearly every woman for a span of approximately 30 - 50 years will require a product to deal with her menstral cycle. What's more, she will need that product for approximately three to seven days every twenty-eight days more or less.

You have to admit, it's one helluva business model.

And the reason that pharma focuses on treating chronic conditions rather than curing them. More money in selling people a pill a day forever* then 1 course of treatment.



yrs,
rubato

Which makes pharma sort of an external parasitic symbiont.