Reason Party leader Fiona Patten will introduce legislation in the state Parliament next week to decriminalise all drugs in Victoria.
Under the bill, Victoria police would instead issue mandatory referrals to drug education programmes and treatment centres. She...
I am bringing into the Victorian Parliament legislation to decriminalise all drugs.
It is about saving lives and reducing harm caused by drugs. It is about treating drug use as a health issue with a health solution, not a criminal one.
Irrefutable international evidence proves replacing...
OPINION | By Fiona Patten
A four-day working week. It’s a sensible, exciting and well-established idea whose time has finally come, COVID-19 shows us.
The pandemic has not only triggered agility, resilience and effectiveness in our response; we’d readily manage the transition to a four-day...
Despite repeated freedom of information requests from journalists and questions I’ve asked in Parliament, the Victorian Government insists that they can't divulge which companies utilise prison labour, because that information is ‘commercial in confidence’.
‘Commercial in confidence’ is...
Beernuts Podcast – Fiona Patten – December 2021
Dec 9, 2021
Fiona speaks to Gough from “The Beernuts Productions Podcast”
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Media statement from Fiona Patten MP
Dec 1, 2021
Back in March, I agreed to a sensible extension of the state emergency powers - if the government lowered the fines for children and improved the detention review system, and most importantly, if they created pandemic specific legislation.
Back then, many wanted to play politics and blow up the...
Fiona Patten provides an update to Sammy J on the debate on the Pandemic Management Bill.
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Victorian independent MP Fiona Patten has said that if the federal government’s Religious Freedom Bill ever becomes law, it should be challenged by the Victorian government. “If this bill passes in any form that overrides Victoria's strong anti-discrimination laws, the State Government must...
ABC RN | Breakfast with Fran Kelly, 18th of November
Nov 18, 2021
The surprise reappearance of disgraced former Labor MP Adem Somyurek is threatening to derail the Victorian Government's pandemic legislation.
If he votes against the bill, it will fail and Victorian MP Fiona Patten says he might be "coming in for payback" against his former Labor...
Everyone has had to make changes to cope with the pandemic, but what about when your income is derived from intimacy?
Samantha X is an escort and owner of Samantha’s Angels escort agency. She tells us she was taking lots of calls during lockdown, from women looking to begin work in the...