By Rachel Eddie
Photo credit: Luis Enrique Ascui
Fitzroy North locals are fighting to stop an alcohol ban at the popular Edinburgh Gardens, after neighbours complained of drug use, overflowing rubbish and faeces in the streets.
Reason Party leader Fiona Patten on Thursday threw her...
MATT TAYLOR
Picture: Carmel Zaccone
THE Victorian Government has vowed to take steps next year to fix the massive country-city rates disparity.
In response to a question from Reason Party leader Fiona Patten in the Legislative Council on Tuesday, Minister for Local Government Shaun...
Fiona Patten’s report cards: Crossbencher grades performance of state politicians (and Neil Mitchell)
Dec 8, 2020
Victorian crossbencher Fiona Patten has rated the 2020 performance of several colleagues, herself, and 3AW Mornings host Neil Mitchell.
The Reason Party leader gave report cards for the Premier, Opposition Leader and the vocal member for Kew, but withheld a grade for the Police...
Saturday Magazine – 5/12/20
Dec 5, 2020
Leader of the Reason Party Fiona Patten @FionaPattenMLC joins Macca and Tass to discuss the coalition with independent Mildura MP Ali Cupper @AliCupper, and the proposed legislation to ban Conversion Practises.
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By Richard Willingham
Victorian independent MP Ali Cupper has struck a unique coalition with Fiona Patten's Reason Party, in a bid to boost the duo's influence in state politics.
The MPs have dubbed themselves a "coalition of independent women", pledging to work together in the Victorian...
MATT TAYLOR📷: Carmel Zaccone
MEMBER for Mildura Ali Cupper will join forces with influential Victorian Upper House MP Fiona Patten in a newcoalition to “change Victoria for the better”.
In a bombshell announcement, Ms Cupper will today become the Deputy Leader of Ms Patten’s...
By Noel TowellPhoto by Paul Jeffers
They might look like a political odd couple; independent MP Ali Cupper from far-flung Mildura and the Reason Party’s uber-urban leader Fiona Patten.
But the two state MPs say the deal they have struck, for Ms Cupper to join Reason as the minor...
INDEPENDENT FOR A REASON
Dec 3, 2020
Mildura MP Ali Cupper Changes the Game Again
Joint Media Statement:
Fiona Patten MP Member for Northern Metropolitan
Ali Cupper MP Member for Mildura
Hailed as a ‘new coalition of independent women’, and in a move sure to change the way politics is done in Victoria, Member for...
By Paul Sakkal📷: James Alcock
Micro-parties may find it more difficult to have their candidates elected under laws to be introduced to Victoria's parliament that would ban the controversial practice of preference harvesting.
Reason Party MP Fiona Patten has drafted legislation to...
Paying experts to “preference harvest” in state elections will be illegal if new Victorian legislation is passed, potentially wiping out minor parties. | Alex White
Gaming the ballot box would be made illegal in Victoria in a move that if successful, could see minor parties wiped out in...