Liberty Victoria - 2021 Annual General Meeting and Special General Meeting
Liberty Victoria (the Victorian Council for Civil Liberties Inc) is calling the 2021 Annual General Meeting on Tuesday 16 November 2021 at 5.30pm via a zoom link. This is combined with a Special General Meeting of members to consider amendments to our Constitution.
With speaker Abbas Nazari
On the twentieth anniversary of the Tampa, We are delighted to have Abbas Nazari as our speaker. Abbas was a child aboard the Tampa in 2001 and has since become a Fulbright Scholar. He has recently released a book, After the Tampa: from Afghanistan to New Zealand that describes his experience aboard the boat and his life since.
Watch our Guest Speaker Abbas Nazari Here
Download the Liberty Victoria Annual Report
The Liberty Victoria Constitution was amended at the Liberty Victoria Annual and Special General Meeting held on 16 November 2021
Constitution showing amendments
Constitutional Changes
A clean copy and a copy showing the proposed Liberty Victoria constitutional amendments can be accessed at the links above.
The proposed amendments will:
Create a new structure which will acknowledge and integrate the outstanding work of the Rights Advocacy Project into the official structure of the Victorian Council for Civil Liberties (Liberty Victoria).
This includes
- Recognising the Rights Advocacy Project (RAP) as a separate Committee of Liberty Victoria
- Streamlining our current Management and Policy Committees into one General Committee to reflect our existing meeting structures.
- Adding positions for the Chair and Deputy Chair of RAP on the General Committee
- Creating an Executive Committee consisting of Office Bearers of Liberty Victoria
It will also
- Update current annual subscription dates currently starting on 1 July each year to instead start on the day of payment of membership fees.
- Clarify the rules around general meetings to enable them to be held online