Reason Leader and Member for Northern Metropolitan Region, Fiona Patten, says the way to address the influence of money on elections is to cap the amount that can be spent on them.
“It’s that simple,” Ms Patten said this morning.
This comes as reports about the...
MEDIA STATEMENT: road laws for medicinal cannabis
Mar 21, 2019
Reason Leader and Member for Northern Metropolitan Region, Fiona Patten, today took the first step to amend our road laws, so that medicinal cannabis is treated the same as every other prescription medication.
Ms Patten today sought to amend the Transport Legislation Amendment...
The Australian: Victorian MP Bernie Finn’s refusal to stand for indigenous acknowledgment ‘petty’
Mar 21, 2019
By RACHEL BAXENDALE, VICTORIAN POLITICAL REPORTER
Cover 📷: Getty Images
Victorian Labor frontbencher Martin Pakula says Liberal backbencher Bernie Finn’s decision to refuse to stand for an acknowledgment of indigenous Australians at the daily opening of state parliament is...
ABC: Call for multi-faith ceremony to replace Lord’s Prayer during opening of Victorian Parliament
Mar 20, 2019
By state political reporter Richard Willingham
Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews has flagged opening Parliament with a multi-faith ceremony instead of the Lord's Prayer.
Religions observed by state MPs include Christianity, Judaism, Islam and Hinduism.
At the start of every day,...
Leader of Reason, Fiona Patten discusses the government's plan to ask a committee to investigate whether the lord's prayer is appropriate for starting each sitting day.
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Victorian parliament to consider axing Lord’s Prayer
Mar 20, 2019
By RACHEL BAXENDALE, VICTORIAN POLITICAL REPORTER 📷 CREDIT: TIM CARRAFA
Daniel Andrews says a “multi-faith moment at the beginning of the parliamentary day” may offer a better reflection of modern, multicultural Victoria than the Lord’s Prayer, backing a move by his Special...
By Noel Towell and Adam Carey 📷 by Joe Armao
Religion and politics, often a volatile mix, have feelings running high again in State Parliament this week.
Conservative members of the upper house have been refusing to stand for the Acknowledgment of Country at the opening...
Reason Leader and Member for Northern Metropolitan, Fiona Patten, has today welcomed the decision by Special Minister of State Gavin Jennings, to refer the matter of replacing the daily recitation of the Lord’s Prayer in Parliament to the Procedures Committee of the Upper House for...