The state’s courts are also dealing with record numbers of accused offenders being stuck behind bars as years of tightening bail laws continue to bite.
Liberty Victoria vice-president Jamie...
Liberty Victoria in the News
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Media Type: Article - The AgeDate: November 14, 2019
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Media Type: Article - Sydney Morning Herald
Civil liberties groups including Liberty Victoria argued last week that existing laws could be used to punish violent protesters and that calling on consumers to stop spending with a specific...
Date: November 5, 2019 -
Media Type: Article - Macrobusiness
Liberty Victoria president Jessie Taylor warned of an “extraordinary incursion into free speech” in Mr Morrison’s stated intention when the right to protest and boycott was at the heart of most...
Date: November 4, 2019 -
Media Type: Article
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Date: November 4, 2019
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Media Type: Article - The Age
Liberty Victoria president Jessie Taylor warned of an "extraordinary incursion into free speech" in Mr Morrison's stated intention when the right to protest and boycott was at the heart of most...
Date: November 2, 2019 -
Media Type: Video - Sky News
Liberty Victoria President, Jessie Taylor, taks to Derryn Hinch about surveillance technology
Date: September 28, 2019 -
Media Type: Article - The Age
Liberty Victoria's Gemma Cafarella said facial recognition technology was a "significant erosion" of privacy that locked everyone with a driver's licence into a national database.
She said...
Date: September 17, 2019 -
Media Type: Audio - 3AW - Mornings with Neil Mitchell
Civil libertarians have questioned the wider use of driver’s licence photos.
“Until such time as we have a proven need that this can actually address, it’s a huge overreach,” Liberty...
Date: September 17, 2019 -
- Buzzfeed.News
More Indigenous people could be held in immigration detention and deported from Australia if a new migration law is passed, three separate lawyers’ groups, (including Liberty Victoria) have warned...
Date: September 12, 2019 -
Media Type: Audio - ABC Radio
The proposal to drug test Newstart recipients is based on a narrow and punitive assumption of the way Newstart recipients conduct their lives. It has no proven benefit.
Listen to Jessie...
Date: September 6, 2019