Green Party says sex work not reason candidate was rejected
Tuesday, 31 March 2026
A sex worker rights group claims the Green Party has barred their chair from becoming a potential MP, saying she was told it would “distract” from the Green Party’s messaging goals.
Fired Up Stilettos (FUS) issued a statement claiming the Greens interrogated their chair, Bianca Beebe, regarding her past as a sex worker, raising concerns other parties would find archives of now-deleted nude photos and her history providing sexual services illegally on a work visa.
The Green Party has disputed the claims, saying she was not rejected due to her sex work and the words attributed to a committee member in the statement were never said, and misrepresented the conversation that occurred.
The party has tightened up on its party list candidate selection process this year with the use of an executive panel, The Post previously reported. Candidates must be approved by the panel before going into the wider pool of potential list candidates at this year’s election.
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The tighter process was brought in following the Green Party’s torrid experience with MP Darleen Tana earlier in the term, after an investigation into allegations of migrant exploitation at her husband’s company eventually saw her forced out of the party.
It also comes in the wake of Green MP Benjamin Doyle resigning from Parliament after they received sustained death threats over a social media post.
Beebe was emailed an extensive list of follow‑up questions from the committee after her initial candidate interview, including 21 about sex work, which The Post has obtained.
“The questions displayed a prurient fixation on the details of the job,” the group stated.
“Much was made of her having previously advertised sex work online, and they asked how she would feel if the opposition found archives of those now-deleted photos.”
Beebe responded saying “all of my advertising photos were great, so it would be pretty funny to have people attempt to shame me by sharing photos of me looking amazing. What’s next, they’re going to leak my school transcripts showing a high GPA?”
FUS said the candidate committee called this and her other replies “frivolous” and said she was not taking the “reputational risk” she posed to the Green Party seriously.
They alleged the committee chair expressed concern Beebe’s sex-working past and activism would “distract” from the Green Party’s messaging goals.
Beebe’s history of providing sexual services illegally on a work visa was raised during the selection process, the group said.
Now a permanent citizen, Beebe has been open about her past in order advocate for reform, risking deportation when reporting an attempted sexual assault incident involving herself and a client.
FUS said Beebe raised the fact that the same reform she advocated for was Green Party policy.
In a separate candidacy interview, Beebe said she told the committee she believed she was “clearly being discriminated against” on the basis of doing sex work, saying “the committee’s obsession with the ‘risk’ of her old nude photos was due to their commercial purpose”.
FUS questioned when consensual sexual behaviour between adults became disqualifying for a leadership role in the Greens.
“Will they be similarly shocked to discover MPs also engage in sexual relations that are sometimes outside the confines of heterosexual, monogamous marriage? Shall we fetch the fainting couch?”
A Green Party spokesperson said the party had always stood unapologetically for the rights of sex workers and the role of the sex work industry.
The spokesperson said its more rigorous candidate selection process this year ensured its candidates were ready to be MP and part of a Green Government.
“The selection process is led by the party and has the trust of the movement to uphold the values and long-standing politics of the Green Party.
“While only candidates are told the reasons for their exclusion, we can confirm that Bianca Beebe was not rejected from the Party’s candidate pool because of her sex work,“ the spokesperson said.
“We have also have reviewed the transcripts and correspondence and can categorically confirm that the words attributed to a committee member were not said by any committee member and that the quotes are a misrepresentation of the conversation that occurred.'
Calls for an apology
The group has been working with the Greens to submit a members’ bill to give adult entertainment workers more rights.
FUS said it had lost trust the Greens would treat them or the people they represented with respect and it was calling on the party to apologise.
They said Beebe’s candidacy was discussed with a few other parties at the same time and “every other party behaved better”.
“Only the Green Party’s interview process placed greater importance on preventing nude photographs of sex workers than on preventing violence against us.”
It would continue to pursue legislative change and seek cross party support.
“The Greens have previously done good work for sex workers and we would love to see them apologise for this behaviour and put systems in place to ensure no other sex worker is so treated in any meeting with any of their representatives.”
The group’s full statement can be found here.