Melbourne’s live music venues set for survival debate in parliament

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Christie Eliezer Contributing Editor The Music Network

Melbourne venue operators will put their case to parliament on Thursday for financial survival.

Senator Fiona Patten of the Reason Party will table a Change.org petition that was set up when the city’s music spaces went into lockdown in March.

It was written by Guy Palermo, owner of 300-capacity venue The Bendigo Hotel in Collingwood.

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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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