Join Fiona Patten MP for a Q&A Coffee Morning at the Green Pepper Cafe in Coburg.

This is a time for local residents to meet Fiona Patten MP and ask any questions on local or state issues that matter to you.

If you can’t make this event we will be hosting many more throughout the Northern Metropolitan area so keep an eye out on Fiona’s Facebook page for more information.

Monday 3rd of September: Join us at the Hare Hole for an intimate conversation with Fiona Patten, in a celebration of her new memoir, Sex, Drugs and the Electoral Roll: My unlikely journey from sex worker to Member of Parliament. The incredible story of Fiona Patten, in her own inimitable words. Tireless fighter, courageous activist and effective politician who really is making a difference to her world.

Book will be available for purchase on the night.

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ABOUT THE BOOK

Sex worker, fashion designer, anti-censorship activist, fierce campaigner, political lobbyist and Member of Parliament – Fiona Patten’s life has been nothing if not eventful. From her early days as an AIDS-HIV educator and activist and CEO of Australia’s national adult goods and services lobby group, the Eros Association, Fiona has always fought hard for what she believed in. But all too often, she has come face to face with apathy and deeply-roooted conservatism. Frustrated and deeply disappointed by the lack of social change and progress around censorship, drug law reform, euthanasia and same-sex marriage, Fiona set up and registered the Australian Sex Party in 2009.

The Sex Party led with a strong focus on civil libertarian and personal freedom issues, and Fiona became the first Leader of a political party to call for a Royal Commission into child sex abuse in religious institutions. In 2014, Fiona contested and won an upper house seat representing the Northern Metropolitan Region in Victoria. As one of five crossbenchers, she currently holds the balance of power in Legislative Council. Since her election, Fiona has successfully instigated landmark parliamentary inquiries and legislation, including Australia’s largest public inquiry into drug law reform, voluntary assisted dying laws, the legalisation of ridesharing, safe access zones for abortion clinics and the introduction of a bill for a medically supervised injecting centre.

In August 2017, the Australian Sex Party was dissolved to make way for Reason, a movement of radical common sense. Sex, Drugs and the Electoral Roll is the entertaining and inspiring story of how one woman used her own radical common sense to speak truth to power and fight for change.

Book HERE

Readings is delighted to have Fiona Patten joining us to discuss her book, Sex, Drugs and the Electoral Roll: My Unlikely Journey from Sex Worker to Member of Parliament.

Sex worker, fashion designer, anti-censorship activist, fierce campaigner, political lobbyist, and Member of Parliament – Fiona Patten’s life has been nothing if not eventful!

Free, but please book your spot here.

Join Fiona Patten MP for a ‘Pint & Politics’ Q&A session at the Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood.

This is your chance to ask Fiona about any local or state issues that matter to you. This is a FREE event to attend and Fiona will remain for a Meet and Greet session afterwards.

The Q&A will start at 7pm with an introduction from Fiona before the questions are opened up to the floor.

Join Fiona Patten MP for a ‘Pint & Politics’ Q&A session at the Excelsior Hotel, Thomastown.

This is your chance to ask Fiona about any local or state issues that matter to you. This is a FREE event to attend and Fiona will remain for a Meet and Greet session afterwards.

The Q&A will start at 7pm with an introduction from Fiona before the questions are opened up to the floor.

Please register your interest here