The Sex Party is an Australian political party founded in 2009 out of an adult-industry lobby group. Its policies opposes internet censorship and supports the national media classification scheme and rating for non-violent sexual content.

After the Australian Government released the budget, the Australian Sex Party responded by asserting that the government should take action to alleviate the tax burden on families by overhauling tax concessions given to religious bodies and churches. Speaking on behalf of the Sex Party, its leader Fiona Patten says that it is appalling how churches are able to evade taxes to the tune of nearly twenty billions dollars per year despite the fact that most churches are in control of business organizations, real estates and companies whose annual turnover run into hundreds of millions of dollars.

Citing an instance at the Sanitarium owned by The Seventh Day Adventist which according to her is reputed for having nearly 25 percent of the cereal market valued at over $ 300 million dollars, yet, it is not subject to company tax. She sees this as an anomaly and an unfair advantage over other competitors in that same industry and as such not right for churches to be allowed to run tax-free in the name of religious organization.

The Sex Party is aggrieved by the fact that there is no free meal and whatever free meal you eat, someone must have paid for it. In this case, they believe that it is the tax from innocent Australian families that are used to cushion the effect of the financial vacuum created by the tax concessions provided to these religious organizations. In her statement, a dissatisfied Fiona also pointed out the fact that only a few nations of the world still allow churches to operate tax free of which Australia is one of such nations.

In response to this, the churches argued that the profit made from their enterprises are not for the financial aggrandizement of any individual or group of individuals but for the furtherance of their good work. However, the Sex Party maintains that if all profits go back into their good works as declared by the churches, then such moneys should at least be accounted for and then a tax deduction can be granted to the church just like any regular company would do rather than running tax free.