By Helen Macklin
A push for pill testing at music festivals in Victoria has begun just ahead of the state’s elections.
The push comes from the Reason Party, which used to be known as the Sex Party.
Its leader, state upper house MP for the Northern Metropolitan region, Fiona...
Reason Party leader Fiona Patten, independent Darryn Lyons back Fall Festival pill testing, State Government says no
Oct 26, 2018
Harrison Tippet, Geelong Advertiser
VICTORIA’S first pill testing trial should be held at Falls Festival in Lorne this year, a state upper house MP and Geelong candidate says.
Reason Party leader Fiona Patten said providing Falls Festival punters with the opportunity to test their...
They expect and accept you'll probably get on the gear.
If there’s one way to get young, drug-loving Australian voters on side, it’s throwing them a rave. Fiona Patten, leader of the Reason Party—formally known as the Sex Party—knows this. She’s putting on a five-hour house and...
Mornings with Jon Faine 25/10/18 – Audio
Oct 25, 2018
#Reason leader Fiona Patten raises questions about the blurring of Mr Druery’s role as a businessman dealing in votes and also as a taxpayer-funded adviser to Senator Derryn...
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An Australian political party has announced it is throwing a rave to gather support for its pill testing policy among young voters ahead of the Victorian election.
Reason Party leader Fiona Patten announced on Tuesday that the rave, at a bar called Shifty’s in...
Why loneliness needs its own portfolio
Oct 22, 2018
By Fiona Patten
Aloneness is a state of mind that feels good. It’s a place where you feel complete in yourself and no number of friends, family or well-wishers is really going to add to that.
Loneliness is almost the opposite. It’s a state of mind where you feel anything...
Fiona Patten: National Apology Too Little Too Late
Oct 21, 2018
Victorian Parliament Upper House member and Leader of the Reason Party, Fiona Patten, has welcomed today’s apology to the victims of child sex abuse in religious institutions - but has slammed the inaction of legislators in the past and blamed it on their cosy relationships with religious...
By Calla Wahlquist.
Cover Photograph: Chris Hopkins for the Guardian.
Victoria MP says entrenched loneliness is so serious it requires government intervention.
Australia is becoming an increasingly lonely place, so much so that one party is turning it into an...
By Pat Sheil
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"I am an advocate for free speech, but not of a free audience." So declared Fiona Patten, former sex worker, anti-censorship lobbyist, and founder of the Australian Sex Party during...
It’s Ok to be Red
Oct 18, 2018
Fiona Patten MP, Leader of the Reason Party has today called on One Nation Leader Pauline Hanson to join her in a new campaign to stop anti-redhead hate speech.
“For the last few days, everywhere I go all I have heard is people saying ‘Did you hear what that redhead moron did now?’...