ABC RN: Proposed new Victorian law to protect women from online trolls – audio

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ABC RN Drive with Jonathan Green 28.8.19

In an Australian first, a Victorian MP has introduced an anti-trolling bill in the State Parliament aimed at protecting women and vulnerable Victorians from online hate speech.

Reason Party MP Fiona Patten says her bill will extend the state’s current anti-vilification laws – which relate to racial and religious vilification – to also include hate speech based on gender, disability, sexual orientation, and gender identity.

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Fiona Patten is the founder and leader of the Reason Party and a Member of the Victorian Legislative Council for the Northern Metropolitan region. She came to politics after 20 years of lobbying for the rights of organisations involved in the sexual rights movement – including small businesses, sex workers, HIV/AIDS organisations, adult media and online anti-censorship groups. Before that she was an established independent fashion designer with her own label called Body Politics.

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