IN STUDIO WITH NEIL MITCHELL - 14/08/2018
Fiona Patten says she’s not ashamed of anything she’s done in her life and has no regrets sharing it all publicly in her new book.
The Reason Party leader has penned a memoir – Sex, Drugs and the Electoral Roll – and it’s fair to say nothing...
Can we just stop acting like dicks?
Aug 9, 2018
Leader of the Reason Party and Northern Metropolitan MP Fiona Patten today announced her plan for new integrity and transparency rules for politicians – after a week of painful point-scoring and finger-pointing in parliament.
“Debate in both houses today, where the major parties accused...
Report: Inquiry into civics and electoral participation in Victorian state parliamentary elections
Aug 8, 2018
The Electoral Matters Committee in a joint investigative committee in the Victorian Parliament. It was asked by the Legislative Assembly on the 21 February, 2017 to specifically examine:
- Electoral and civics education, the Victorian Electoral Commission’s (VEC’s) community...
Leader of the Reason Party and Northern Metropolitan MP Fiona Patten has urged our religious institutions to set new standards in the way they address institutional child abuse.
“The maxim ‘justice not only needs to be done, but must be seen to be done’ should be the standard that the...
Presented by Damien Carrick for the Law Report, ABC Radio National
Image: From left to right Damien Carrick, Associate Professor Luke Beck, Ron Merkel QC, Emeritus Professor Gillian Triggs, Fiona Patten MP, Morgan Begg IPA (James Pattison, Monash University supplied)
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PETER WILMOTH | AUG 2, 2018
Fiona Patten at Parliament House in Melbourne. Photo: Julian Kingma
Three years into her career as a “mainstream” politician, it seems Fiona Patten’s time has come. Well, her ideas, anyway. Marriage equality, medicinal cannabis, legislative...
THE political memoirs of Fiona Patten will be very unlike most. Scandalous tales of drug use and brothel work and, apparently, unexpected uses for a zucchini. Except these stories, set to be released in a couple of months, don’t scandalise the politician who, by conventional thinking, should...
3AW: Tom Elliot Takes Offence
Jul 20, 2018
Reason Party MP Fiona Patten says she doesn’t think there’s an issue with her new billboard using a swear word to make a point.
The billboard on Spencer Street reads “A politician who knows who to get s**t done” with letters ‘sh’ crossed out.
Tom Elliott questioned the slogan on...
IN a small, inner-city suburb of Melbourne, drug use is rampant and flagrant. But the solution has caused division among locals.
Rohan Smith @ro_smith news.com.au
HIGH-rise housing commission flats tower over Lennox St in North Richmond.
There’s a pub across the road, graffiti...