NEW laws banning fracking and extending the moratorium on conventional gas have passed Victorian Parliament after controversial amendments by the Opposition were voted down. The Opposition tried to amend an anti-fracking bill to allow for conventional gas exploration to occur before 2020, if the...
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Leader of the Australian Sex Party and Northern Metropolitan MP Fiona Patten has today questioned why the Victorian government is fast-tracking imports of medicinal cannabis at the same time Victorian compassionate suppliers are targeted for prosecution.
“The hypocrisy is...
SHE was lying in a Hungry Jack’s bathroom in Melbourne, a syringe sticking out of her leg.
She had overdosed on heroin and the mother was rushed to hospital where she died at just 34 years old in May last year. She was unemployed and lived with her mother and brother in Dallas, in...
PREMIER Daniel Andrews is refusing to support a push for a safe injecting room despite admitting that more needs to be done to help drug addicts.
The Herald Sun revealed today that a coalition of community leaders and medical experts is backing Sex Party leader Fiona Patten’s plan for an...
There is probably no other issue in Australian public life that can claim such increasing levels of support over the past decade. On the most recent polls, 84 per cent of ALP voters and 82 per cent of Coalition voters support it. Even 77 per cent of Catholics and 88 per cent of Anglicans want to...
Parliamentary Inquiry to Put Drug Laws to the Test
Nov 13, 2016
MEASURES like roadside drug tests for people driving on medication, and sniffer dogs at music festivals would be put under the microscope in a proposed parliamentary inquiry into drug laws.
The call for the drug probe will be put to Parliament tomorrow and is expected to see ministers delve into...
Time to Let Malcolm Be Malcolm
Nov 7, 2016
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Member for Northern Metropolitan and Leader of the Australian Sex Party, Fiona Patten MP, has welcomed the rejection of legislation for a plebiscite on marriage equality and has again urged a move to a parliamentary vote as soon as possible.
“The federal senate has seen common...
Somewhere in Victoria sits a highly guarded building that will soon become the home of Australia's first government-sanctioned cannabis crop.
Here, in a research facility shrouded in secrecy, change is coming.
For bio-security reasons, the location of the site remains confidential, but over...
I had an abortion in my last year of high school. It was the 1980s. Alongside Elvis Costello, the love of my life was a strapping, smart and sensitive surfer. We were madly, deeply in love but unfortunately that was not an effective form of birth control.
My family was living in Canberra at the...
New parliamentary group to look at drug law reform
Oct 13, 2016
Following outdated and ill-informed views in the recent debate on Fiona Patten’s motion to decriminalise cannabis, the North Metro MLC has established a parliamentary friendship group to look at drug law reform.
“People were groaning when member after member kept getting up to talk about...