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The approach to the Australian Sex Party was made by a junior staffer in Senator Fielding's office without the approval or support of the party.

Now, I've just checked the How to Vote cards for every House of Reps seat Family First is running in in South Australia:

Adelaide - Liberals are put second, Labor fifth.
Barker - Liberals second, Labor fourth
Boothby - Liberals second, Labor seventh
Grey - Liberals second, Labor third
Hindmarsh - Liberals second, Labor fourth
Kingston - Liberals second, Labor fourth
Makin - Liberals second, Labor seventh
Mayo - Liberals second, Labor seventh
Port Adelaide - Liberals second, Labor third
Sturt - Liberals second, Labor sixth
Wakefield - Liberals second, Labor fourth

In every single seat that Family First are running in in South Australia, they've directed their second preference to the Liberals. There is no case where they have given Labor preference over the Liberals as you seem to believe.

I wonder why you believe this - hang on. Back in March at the South Australian state election, Labor rather sneakily distributed How to Vote Cards that made it look like Family First had given them its preferences which was not true.

Article about it here.

And another.

I'm wondering if you've fallen for a dirty trick like that. It's designed to mislead people.

Family First will occasionally give a Labor politician preference over the coalition (they did in 2007 in two seats but only in cases where that specific Labor politician is anti-gay marriage, while their coalition opponent is pro-gay marriage.) They might also do it at some stage over another one of their core issues - but in general, they direct preferences to the coalition and they are doing so at this election in South Australia.

Yeah, I know the entire story...but the fact is that they have Labor ahead of the Liberals here in South Australia. The other thing is it nearly impossible to find out from them just who there preferences really are...check out their web site and do a google search. If you can find out where their preferences are in the different States, you are doing better than me. In fact, all the parties are actually dreadful on how they communicate what their preferences are...it makes me angry.