Today Victorian Upper House will debate the Justice Legislation Miscellaneous Amendment Bill 2018 which introduces a mandatory sentencing regime.
Fiona Patten MP, Leader of the Reason Party and member for the Northern Metropolitan Region, is deeply concerned by the proposed...
With 140 people treated for overdoses in three months, the room has been hailed a success. But a change of government could see the trial scuppered in an instant.
At Melbourne’s first-ever safe-injecting room, people who come here to use heroin sometimes accidentally drop their stash...
By Benjamin Preiss Photo: Jason South
Laura Chipp believes she has some inside knowledge that’ll give her an edge in an election campaign on law and order.
But the daughter of Democrats founder Don Chipp, who famously vowed to “keep the bastards honest”, will not run on a platform of...
Pollie’s risque joke too blue for Snapchat – SBS
Sep 14, 2018
Although the audio was bleeped out of Fiona Patten's video, it was still rejected by Snapchat. (AAP)
A Victorian politician's use of a certain word in a video ad has been rejected by social media platform Snapchat.
Social media platform Snapchat may be known for lewd photo...
RN Breakfast 12/9/18 – Audio
Sep 12, 2018
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Uncommon Sense – Triple R FM | Presented by Amy Mullins
Fiona Patten MLC, Founder and Leader of Reason Party (formerly The Sex Party) and parliamentarian, discusses her memoir, 'Sex, Drugs and the Electoral Roll: My unlikely journey from sex worker to Member of Parliament'. Broadcast on...
By Tony Wright
Fiona Patten, libertarian, social reformer, politician and long-time advocate for the sex industry, leans back in her chair, takes a sip of her Campari and soda and lets loose a throaty laugh.
"Well, yes, I have written a book, haven't I?" she chuckles.
"It's...
By ROSS FITZGERALD
COLUMNIST
Most political memoirs should come with a warning that there might be boring bits. Fiona Patten’s is anything but boring. Indeed, and I know this is a big call, it may well be the most unusual and provocative political memoir to written to date by a...
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