By Benjamin Preiss
📷: Reason Party MP Fiona Patten wants an inquiry into Crown's gaming licence. CREDIT: WAYNE TAYLOR
Crossbench MP Fiona Patten will call for an urgent inquiry into Crown’s casino licence, arguing the state government must tackle allegations of money...
By Miki Perkins
Cover 📷 Naomi Murphy CREDIT: JUSTIN MCMANUS
At any hour of the day or night, Naomi Murphy could get a phone call from a social worker asking if she’s able to offer emergency help to a child in need.
The Wakka Wakka woman, who lives in the Latrobe Valley, is a...
Herald Sun: Tottie Goldsmith backs Olivia Newton-John’s fight for medicinal cannabis to be legalised
Aug 10, 2019
Tottie Goldsmith says her famous aunt, Olivia Newton John, has "never dome a drug in her life". Now she's desperate to take make one legal.
By Luke Dennehy, news.com.au
The niece of Olivia Newton-John has come out strongly in support of the Australian icon as she fights to make...
Sydney Morning Herald: Crossbenchers back bill to let transgender people alter birth papers
Aug 9, 2019
By Benjamin Preiss
Victoria wants to allow trans and intersex people to change their sex in their birth certificates. 📷 CREDIT: EDDIE JIM
Transgender Victorians look likely to be allowed to change the sex recorded on their birth certificates, with key crossbenchers declaring their...
JOY 94.9: State Parliament to debate allowing changing genders on birth certificates without surgery – audio
Aug 9, 2019
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A bill before the Victorian Parliament, the Births Deaths and Marriages Registration Amendment Bill 2019, will allow trans people to change their birth certificates without...
BY CHALPAT SONTI
“WHAT’S the point of doing the crime, doing your time, if you have to live with it for the rest of your life?”
Those words by a prominent community member summed up at a sitting of a Victorian parliamentary...
ABC Central Victoria: Interview with Fiona Patten, on Vic’s voluntary assisted dying legislation
Aug 5, 2019
Interview with Fiona Patten, Reason Party MP, on Vic's voluntary assisted dying legislation and Kerry Robertson being the first person to utilise it.
Breakfast with Fiona Parker 5/8/19.
Patten sends her condolences to Jacqui and Nicole,...
Star Weekly: Fight continues for road works
Jul 30, 2019
By Laura Michell
A group of Greenvale residents determined to secure the duplication of Mickleham and Somerton roads, has relaunched a petition calling on the state government to act immediately.
The Greenvale Residents Association’s roads...
3AW Mornings with Neil Mitchell 30/7/19 – audio
Jul 30, 2019
Mornings with Neil Mitchell 30/7/19
Reason Party leader Fiona Patten spoke to Neil Mitchell about the shortcomings of the scheme for patients to access medicinal cannabis.
She also said the government has not confirmed her suspicions, but she...
Despite politicians across the world admitting to these kinds of shenanigans, our home grown versions refuse to admit any involvement.
OPINION - Neil Pharaoh
“When I was a kid, I inhaled, that was the point.”
This marked the first political...