Fiona Patten
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Fiona Patten MLC |
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| Member of the Victorian Legislative Council for Northern Metropolitan | |
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Assumed office 29 November 2014 |
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| Leader of the Australian Sex Party | |
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Assumed office 5 December 2009 |
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| Preceded by | Position created |
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| Born | 1964 (age 52–53) Canberra, Australia |
| Political party | Australian Sex Party |
| Residence | Melbourne |
Fiona Heather Patten (born 1964) is an Australian politician. She has been the leader of the Australian Sex Party since its foundation in 2009, and has represented the party in Northern Metropolitan Region of the Victorian Legislative Council since the 2014 Victorian election. Patten was previously the CEO of the Eros Association, the peak body representing "adult shops" (retailers of pornography/erotica, sex toys and other sex-related products).
In 1992, Patten contested the second election for representation in the multi-member single constituency Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly on a ticket called the Hare-Clark Independent Party with sitting member, Craig Duby. Both Duby and Patten were unsuccessful in being elected.
Patten contested the seat of Higgins in Victoria at the 2009 by-election. She received over 3 percent of the vote, placing her 4th out of 10 candidates. Her campaign was based on opposing Greens candidate Clive Hamilton's proposal for an ISP-level Internet filter which would block access to websites containing RC-rated content—that is, legal material which is banned from sale, trade or public exhibition due to its extreme nature.
Patten remains a prominent critic of the proposal. She appeared in the Four Corners episode "Access Denied" arguing that it would include blocking access to adult films such as Pirates—refused classification because of a technicality—that do not depict sexual violence, are extremely popular overseas and are available for download on dozens of websites. According to research mentioned in the episode, it is unviable for the filter to block access to more than a thousand or so individual web pages.
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