Greens Senator Larissa Waters has put a motion to the Senate to stop controversial van hire company Wicked Campers "promoting violence against women" with slogans painted on its vehicles.
Senator Waters said in a statement that the slogans Wicked campers painted on its vans were "sexist, misogynistic and racist," and should not be tolerated.
"One in every three Australian women over the age of 15 have experienced violence and one in every five have experienced sexual violence," she said in the statement.
“Most often women know their attacker, with one Australian woman a week killed by her partner or ex-partner.
“It’s absolutely appalling that apparently some derive humour out of violence against women."
Senator Waters' motion was passed this afternoon.
She had previously urged the Senate to support her motion and "send a strong signal that promoting violence against women is unacceptable in Australian society.”
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Wicked Campers has come under increasing pressure this week after an online petition kicked off by Sydney mother Paula Orbea gained national attention, triggering widespread calls for the company to remove explicit slogans form its vans.
The petition - launched after Ms Orbea's daughter spotted a Wicked van in the Blue Mountains with "In every princess, there's a little slut who wants to try it just once" written on the back - now has more than 100,000 signatures.
Wicked's Leanne Webb says the company is unfazed by the public backlash.
Wicked owners respond: 'We just want to have a good time'
“We don’t try to be controversial. It’s not our goal. We just do what we love and just have fun,” Ms Webb, who is gay and formerly known as Liam, told SBS.
“We have all kinds of people of all kinds of orientation, of all kinds of races and everything like that, including myself as well.
"But we just want to have a good time. We poke fun at everything more broadly, it’s never specifically targeted at anyone in particular at all.”
