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3AW: Fiona Patten questions a taxpayer “handout” to the Catholic Church to rebuild Notre Dame – audio
Apr 17, 2019
Mornings with Tony Jones
Reason leader Fiona Patten MP questions former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's calls that the Australian Government should donate to the Notre Dame Restoration fund after the historic French site caught fire overnight.
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Reason Leader and Member for Northern Metropolitan Region, Fiona Patten, has lambasted calls by former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull that the Australian Government should donate to the Notre Dame Restoration fund after the historic French site caught fire overnight.
Federal Labor...
SBS: This is why safe access zones matter
Apr 12, 2019
By Chloe Sargeant
Along with the inevitable fear of the unknown that often comes before undergoing invasive surgery, I was also terrified of something else: my decision being protested.
When I had an abortion, I was terrified. Obviously.
I was inundated with fear: was I making the...
By Remy Varga
📷 by: Aaron Francis
The Victorian Labor government is considering setting up exclusion zones around medical centres that offer euthanasia, similar to the ones in place around abortion clinics, after cancer patients and their families were targeted by...
ABC: Patients, staff accosted by pro-life campaigners outside Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre
Apr 10, 2019
By state political reporter Richard Willingham
Cancer patients, their families and medical staff have been harassed by anti-euthanasia protesters as they enter Melbourne's Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre for treatment.
A small band of protesters recently handed pamphlets to...
The High Court has today deemed valid laws to protect women and their families, as well as staff, at clinics and hospitals that provide termination services in Victoria and Tasmania.
“The long-fought battle to protect women from anti-abortion protestors is finally over,“ Reason...
By Melissa Cunningham
Distressed cancer patients and staff have been harassed by anti-assisted dying protesters who handed them pamphlets describing voluntary euthanasia as "patient killing by doctors".
A group of protesters lobbied outside the hospital's Grattan Street entrance...
MEDIA RELEASE: Peter Mac Cancer Centre staff, patients, families harassed and verbally abused
Apr 10, 2019
Reason Leader and Member for Northern Metropolitan, Fiona Patten, is horrified by a group of people harassing staff, cancer patients and their families outside Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in Melbourne.
This comes just months before Victorians with a terminal illness will be able to...
ABC Radio Melbourne: Fiona Patten reveals “appalling” flyers being given to terminally ill patients
Apr 10, 2019
Reason leader Fiona Patten reveals that patients and staff of Peter McCallum Cancer Centre have been subjected to fear-mongering and misleading flyers over upcoming Voluntary Assisted Dying legislation being introduced.
"You have the right to free speech but not to a free audience."...