Convicted sex-offender George Pell has today had his appeal dismissed by Victoria’s Court of Appeal and will continue to serve his sentence for abusing two boys after Sunday masses at St Patrick’s Cathedral in East Melbourne.
Reason Leader and Member for Northern Metropolitan, Fiona Patten...
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Following our chat with Fiona Patten earlier this year about her bill proposing a spent convictions scheme for Victoria, the Victorian Legislative Council’s Legal and Social Issues Committee has commenced a public inquiry into a legislated spent...
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JOY FM: Breakfast with Tom and Mikey 15/8/19 – audio
Aug 15, 2019
Fiona Patten MP chatted to Tom and Mikey about her rare Crown Casino motion in the Parliament of Victoria yesterday, the government's bill to break the seal of confession to report child sexual abuse, birth certificates and...
By Benjamin Ansell
📷 Melbourne Archbishop Peter Comensoli officially replaced the retiring Archbishop of Melbourne, Denis Hart in 2018. (AAP)
Priests will be compelled to break the seal of the confessional and report admissions of child abuse under new laws being introduced in...
By Georgie Moore
Priests will risk jail time if they don't report child abuse revealed to them during the sacrament of confession, under news laws being introduced in Victoria.
The bill, introduced into parliament on Wednesday, would make religious ministers mandatory...
This can be attributed to Reason Leader and Member for Northern Metropolitan, Fiona Patten.
It will come as no surprise that I am delighted that the Andrews Government is finally bringing in laws breaking the seal of confession to report child abuse.
This has been a long...
Media Statement: President’s Crown Casino ruling
Aug 13, 2019
Today I moved a Motion of Urgent Public Importance in the Victorian Parliament to force the chamber to debate the serious allegations of corruption and other illegal activity at Crown Casino.
The President of the Legislative Council, the Hon Shaun Leane, rejected the...