Latest articles and news by Liberty Victoria

  • SADDEST CASE: 18-MONTH IMPRISONMENT OF A VICTORIAN WOMAN FOUND UNFIT TO STAND TRIAL

    Liberty Victoria in the News
    Post date: October 16, 2018
    The Ombudsman report on Deborah Glass mentions Liberty Victoria

  • Dutton's decisions on au pairs are legal - but there are other considerations

    Liberty Victoria in the News
    Post date: September 3, 2018
    Sangeetha Pillai refers to Liberty Victoria's report: Playing God - The Immigration Minister's Unrestrained Power

  • A U-turn on the road to redemption: Craig Minogue and the Russell Street bombing

    Liberty Victoria in the News
    Post date: August 26, 2018
    Liberty Victoria quoted in a discussion of the Corrections Amendment (Parole) Bill 2018 

  • Scrap frightening new laws says human rights group

    Press Release
    Post date: July 24, 2018
    A leading human rights group today joined a chorus of condemnation of new State Government laws that sharply cut the amount of time people may spend together. Under the laws children as young as 14 may be given orders not to associate with others (Liberty Victoria notes that Police Minister Lisa... Read more

  • Australian states asylum seekers report

    Liberty Victoria in the News
    Post date: July 2, 2018
    Crikey report on RAP's States of Refuge Report Date: 2 Jul 2018

  • Hostings 3AW Mornings with Tony Jones

    Liberty Victoria in the News
    Post date: April 17, 2018
    Senior Vice President Michael Stanton speaking on 3AW with Tony Jones discussing Liberty Victoria's response to the Andrews government announcement last week to expand the number of offences for which judges and magistrates will be banned from using Community Correction Orders. At  1:31:25.

  • Mandatory Sentencing is unnecessarily cruel, says human rights group

    Press Release
    Post date: April 12, 2018
    New mandatory sentencing laws will not make our communities safer, the human rights group Liberty Victoria warned today. The comments were made in response to Wednesday’s announcement that the Andrews government will expand the number of offences for which judges and magistrates will be banned from... Read more

  • Vic child data bill is passed

    Liberty Victoria in the News
    Post date: April 10, 2018
    In its submission to government on the bill, Liberty Victoria president Jessie Taylor said the organisation supports the concept of streamlining child information sharing, but the legislation presented “goes too far”. “As it stands, the Bill has the capacity to erode the rights of already... Read more

  • Neil Mitchell critical of decision to hand ‘free speech’ gong to former ABC presenter

    Liberty Victoria in the News
    Post date: March 20, 2018
    Neil Mitchell has clashed with the president of Liberty Victoria after it handed Yassmin Abdel-Magied the Young Voltaire award – given to somebody who has “done the most for the right of free speech” in the past year. The 3AW Mornings host questioned whether Ms Abdel-Magied was really an advocate... Read more

  • Magda Szubanski, Yassmin Abdel-Magied take out free speech awards

    Press Release
    Post date: March 19, 2018
    One of Australia’s most popular actors and a prominent activist are among those awarded this year’s major free speech awards, announced today. A further award went to a journalist asylum seeker who has been imprisoned without trial offshore by the Australian Government for over four years. Actor... Read more

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