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Media Statement by Reason Party Leader Fiona Patten MP I am moving legislation to protect and extend fundamental human rights currently being denied in public hospitals. The health system is mistreating those who fund it. Publicly funded hospitals and other health institutions have no right...

Media Statement by Fiona Patten MP Nurse-led abortions is one of the key reforms that ought to be sought this week when all state and territories ministers sit down with the federal minister, Katy Gallagher, to buttress and streamline Australia’s abortion laws. Another is liberating access...

Many may not realise but Malta will be the first country in Europe to regulate cannabis. The Maltese government is also about to be the first in the world to license small, not-for-profit, cannabis ‘social clubs’. [caption id="attachment_10104" align="alignright" width="352"] Mariella...

THE CASE FOR | It is a sad irony that in the name of health Australian governments are making a policy error so fundamental it will kill Australian citizens. There are legitimate concerns about the use of vapes by children. So there bloody well should be. But there should be equal concern about...

Census data shows the time has come for two of my policies that have previously sparked undue controversy and resistance – freedom of religion in Parliament and ending the exemption of profitable religious operations from taxation. I have moved a motion to end the mandatory recitation of the...

Fiona Patten joined Bernie Finn for a new segment on 3AW Mornings, called The Odd Couple. CLICK PLAY BELOW TO LISTEN TO THE...

Reason Party leader Fiona Patten is driving prison reform in Victoria. She told Neil Mitchell the state should be focusing on a rehabilitation-focus approach, for some offences, rather than jail. “It wouldn’t be sexual offences, it wouldn’t be violent offences,” Ms Patten told...

The Victorian government says it will select a group of experts to provide advice on a possible trial to change how illicit drug users are policed. Callum Godde | AAP An expert group will consider a possible trial to change how illicit drug use is policed in Victoria, despite the state...

The Victorian government appears to be considering a trial of drug decriminalisation, despite voting down the legislation put forward by the Reason Party. The government will establish a working group to determine the next steps on how to help, rather than jail, people caught with small...

Fiona speaks with Raf about the government's announcement to form a working group with police, addiction specialists and youth workers to advise the government on infringement trial options. Click PLAY below to listen to the...