Just over a year ago, I stood in the parliament of Victoria and initiated the End of Life Choices Inquiry. Today, the inquiry findings have been released and the conclusion is clear - Victorians want the right to end intolerable suffering if they choose to. It is the individuals choice as to the...
UBER drivers will face criminal history checks and be banned from driving cars that are more than 10 years old under a long-awaited plan to legalise ride-sharing services in Victoria.
Sex Party MP Fiona Patten will unveil her private member’s Bill in the Victorian upper house this week in a...
ANGRY NUNS RIP SEX PARTY MANIFESTO TO PIECES
Jun 1, 2016
Two Nuns from the Mother Teresa order in inner city Melbourne have been caught on camera desecrating a large Sex Party political poster. The Nuns appear hell bent on destroying the words, ‘Tax the Church’. They also tore off the party’s call to legalise marijuana.
Sex Party leader and...
Bill won’t protect unborn children or their mothers
May 24, 2016
Today we will debate the DLP's Infant Viability Bill bought which seeks to drastically change Victorian's abortion laws. It seeks to ciminalise doctors for helping patients and attempts to inject into the parliament the most outdated, anti-women and conservative attitudes of the Catholic Church and...
Fiona Patten Delivers Speech on Victoria’s Apology for the Criminalisation of Homosexuality
May 24, 2016
Today we are flying the rainbow flag over the Parliament of Victoria, as the Premier prepares to make a formal apology to the gay community for old laws that criminalised homosexual behaviour.
I spoke on the State of Victoria's apology for the historical criminalisation of...
The Australian Sex Party has published a powerful letter torching the arguments of anti-vaccine campaigners, after the party was asked about its position by a prominent vaccine critic.
The Sex Party says they were contacted by prominent anti-vaxxer Meryl Dorey of the Australian Vaccination...
A VICTORIAN politician has slammed police for drug testing motorists at the weekend’s Mardi Grass rally in Nimbin, claiming it encouraged people to drink instead.
Sex Party MP Fiona Patten also criticised NSW police minister Troy Grant for allowing the town to become “a police state” over...
Police have questioned an elderly man who flouted new laws aimed at stopping protesters from harassing women outside abortion clinics.
The man was spoken to by two police officers after reports he was praying outside the Fertility Control Clinic in East Melbourne about 4pm.
Laws passed...
Fiona Patten Victorian Government Budget Response
Apr 28, 2016
Member for Northern Metropolitan and Leader of the Australian Sex Party has congratulated Treasurer Tim Pallas on the handing down of the Victorian State Budget 2016/17 praising the record spend on infrastructure particularly in Melbourne’s north. But whilst key infrastructure investments are...
A MELBOURNE security firm’s links to police are being reviewed after revelations it is to be sold to the Chinese.
Special minister of state Gavin Jennings told parliament of a government review into any links to Securecorp in Mulgrave, owned by ex-police Special Operations Group member Craig...