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Fiona Patten MP and Liberal MP, Matthew Bach, join Ali Moore to discuss a range of topics ahead of the November State Election. Click PLAY below to listen to the...

Media Statement by Fiona Patten MP Victoria is facing an exponential increase in homelessness over the next two decades unless it acts immediately to cut the number of young people currently experiencing the crisis. Experts in youth housing say that Victoria needs to create five thousand...

BY BENITA KOLOVOS | Fiona Patten isn’t used to not getting her way. It’s been two weeks since the Victorian government voted down her bill to cut funding to religious public hospitals that refuse to offer abortion and euthanasia and it’s clear she’s not over it. “If I’m honest, it’s...

Opinion | Fiona Patten MP A flood of fresh evidence shows drug law reform is more urgent than ever, including the need for a medically supervised injecting room in Melbourne's CBD to buttress the life-saving work of the centre in North Richmond. There are reasonable concerns about...

Media Statement by Fiona Patten MP A torrent of evidence and news shows drug law reform is more urgent than ever. The clear failure of the current approach, based on prohibition rather than harm minimisation, is needlessly causing widespread death and suffering, wasting billions of...

Media Statement by Reason Party Leader Fiona Patten MP I am moving legislation to protect and extend fundamental human rights currently being denied in public hospitals. The health system is mistreating those who fund it. Publicly funded hospitals and other health institutions have no right...

Media Statement by Fiona Patten MP Nurse-led abortions is one of the key reforms that ought to be sought this week when all state and territories ministers sit down with the federal minister, Katy Gallagher, to buttress and streamline Australia’s abortion laws. Another is liberating access...

Many may not realise but Malta will be the first country in Europe to regulate cannabis. The Maltese government is also about to be the first in the world to license small, not-for-profit, cannabis ‘social clubs’. [caption id="attachment_10104" align="alignright" width="352"] Mariella...

THE CASE FOR | It is a sad irony that in the name of health Australian governments are making a policy error so fundamental it will kill Australian citizens. There are legitimate concerns about the use of vapes by children. So there bloody well should be. But there should be equal concern about...

Census data shows the time has come for two of my policies that have previously sparked undue controversy and resistance – freedom of religion in Parliament and ending the exemption of profitable religious operations from taxation. I have moved a motion to end the mandatory recitation of the...