Removing barriers to Aboriginal employment
May 27, 2020
📷 L-R: Winda-Mara's Michael Bell, Reason Party MP Fiona Patten, Woor-Dungin's Naomi Murphy and CIJ's Stan Winford
RMIT researchers have partnered with Aboriginal organisations on a new project to tackle barriers to employment for Aboriginal people.
Building on earlier successful work...
Hack Triple j: Sex work in a pandemic
May 26, 2020
With strip clubs and brothels forced to remain closed through all three stages of the government's roadmap to recovery, sex workers are having to find new ways to serve their clientele to earn a living. Interview with Fiona Patten...
VICTORIA ESTABLISHES INQUIRY INTO CANNABIS USE
May 20, 2020
By SHIBU THOMAS
Do you have an opinion about the use of cannabis in Victoria? Now is the time to have your say!
The Legal and Social Issues committee of the Victorian Legislative Council has set up an inquiry into the use of Cannabis and is inviting suggestions from the...
Cannabis Inquiry — submissions now open
May 18, 2020
The Legislative Council’s Legal and Social Issues Committee is inviting public submissions for its new inquiry into the use of cannabis in Victoria. As Committee Chair, I look forward to starting work on this.
The broad-ranging inquiry will examine access to and use of cannabis in Victoria,...
3AW: Mornings with Neil Mitchell – 12/5/20
May 12, 2020
Mitchell states Fiona Patten wants the Government to provide Hydromorphone to...
ABC Mornings with Virginia Trioli – 12/5/20
May 12, 2020
Interview with Fiona Patten, Reason Party Leader. Trioli states Patten wants the Vic Government the safe-injecting trial to be...
Leader of the Reason Party and Member for the Northern Metropolitan Region, Fiona Patten, has today called for a trial of hydromorphone for the states' opioid users, arguing the coronavirus is leading to riskier drug use.
"We know the pandemic will affect the drug supply, but that...
By Jewel Topsfield, 📷 by Wayne TaylorOne of the architects of the controversial safe injecting room has called for it to prescribe a pharmaceutical opioid to drug users to reduce the illicit heroin trade in North Richmond.
Reason Party leader Fiona Patten wants the state government to...
Leader of the Reason Party and Member for the Northern Metropolitan, Fiona Patten, has welcomed the release of the Global Commission on Drug Policy’s 2020 report, Enforcement Of Drug Laws Refocusing On Organized Crime Elites.
The major report highlights how prohibition has weakened social...