Interview with Fiona Patten, Victorian State Politics & Policy From A Crossbench MP's Perspective

Fiona Patten MLC, Reason Party Leader and representative for the Northern Metropolitan Region in the upper house of Victoria's state parliament, joins Amy to discuss state politics and policy, as well as the upcoming state election. Fiona explains her new bill which seeks to ensure that all publicly funded hospitals (including religious ones that receive government funding) provide abortion services, contraception, and voluntary-assisted dying. She also discusses a widely-criticised law the Andrews government recently passed that criminalises forest and logging protesters. Fiona also addresses concerns around a government bill that seeks to gather every Victorian's health records into a centralised database for widespread access by healthcare professionals with NO opt-out clause or the ability to control what information is held. Broadcast on 9 August 2022.