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Fiona Patten wants to cap the amount of cash gamblers can withdraw at poker venues, saying the machines are “more damaging” than drugs.
The Reason Party (former Australian Sex Party) leader told Neil Mitchell the government wants to limit ATM withdrawals...
Campaigners urge politicians to take pokies pause
Nov 27, 2017
A last-ditch attempt will be launched in parliament this week to stop the Victorian government handing the state's pokies venues a long-term jackpot worth up to $70 billion.
Legislation for 20-year licences to operate gambling venues and relax ownership limits on the addictive poker machines...
PARAMEDICS have treated a second suspected overdose victim near North Richmond’s safe injecting room site after a person earlier had an apparent overdose metres from where Premier Daniel Andrews was giving a media conference.
The man overdosed on Lennox St at 12.28pm and was...
The announcement of Victoria’s first Medically Supervised Injecting Centre (MSIC) by the Victorian Government is to be embraced according to REASON Party Leader and Victorian Upper House MP Fiona Patten.
“I congratulate Daniel Andrews for his about-face and for seeing REASON in...
By Tammy MillsPhoto by Penny Stephens
Supporters of a Melbourne mother of 13 who was the first person in Victoria convicted of breaching abortion clinic "buffer zone" laws are drawing inspiration from an unlikely source.
Pro-life groups say they could make a similar argument to former...
Proponents fear bill will not pass Legislative Council without amendments – which would send it back to lower house
Supporters of Victoria’s voluntary euthanasia legislation say the vote in the upper house will be tight, with a number of MPs yet to declare their vote.
The voluntary...
ABC 7:30 Transcript
STAN GRANT, PRESENTER: Well, one person who has been instrumental in getting the bill to this point is Upper House MP, Fiona Patten and she joins me now.
Nice to have you with us.
From what you've been seeing here, how close are they to a vote this...
Fiona Patten stands with MGC
Oct 18, 2017
Leader of Reason Australia and Victorian MP Fiona Patten stands with Melbourne Girls College and their sensible decision to counsel, educate and rehabilitate the two students found to be selling cannabis on schools grounds.
A knee-jerk reaction to expel the students would have inflicted more...
Fiona Patten declares herself gratified to have played a significant role in Victoria's path towards becoming the first Australian state to allow euthanasia, even though the proposed legislation falls far short of her original permissive ambitions.
She believes that should Victoria support the...
Express services needed for South Morang line
Sep 19, 2017
Leader of Reason Australia and Victorian MP Fiona Patten will move a motion in Parliament on Wednesday to stop the South Morang crush that commuters face every day by calling for express services to be introduced.
“The line is bursting at the seams now but the government will only consider the...