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  • Another Cautionary Tale in the Twitter Age

    Liberty Victoria in the News
    Post date: May 7, 2010

  • Federal Governments Rejects Key Human Rights Recommendations

    Liberty Victoria Updates
    Post date: April 21, 2010
    Liberty Victoria has expressed its dismay at the Federal Government’s rejection of key human rights recommendations made last year by the Brennan committee. It has branded the refusal to support a Human Rights Act, recommended by the committee, as cowardly and as a further sign that the Government... Read more

  • George Bizos SC Lecture 'Human Rights in South Africa' March 2010

    Liberty Victoria Updates
    Post date: April 5, 2010
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  • Liberty News Autumn 2010

    Liberty Victoria Updates
    Post date: April 1, 2010
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  • Pacific Solution Revival is un-Christian Mr Abbot

    Liberty Victoria in the News
    Post date: February 8, 2010

  • Liberty News 2009

    Liberty Victoria Updates
    Post date: December 31, 2009
    March-April 2009 May-June 2009 July-August 2009 September-October 2009 November-December 2009

  • President's report: advancing Liberty in 2010

    Liberty Victoria Updates
    Post date: December 24, 2009
    Michael Pearce SC This is my first President’s column in my second term as President. I was re-elected unopposed at our Annual General Meeting held on Monday 23 November 2009. Also elected to the executive were: Jamie Gardiner, Vice-President; Anne O’Rourke, Vice-President; Tim Warner, Treasurer;... Read more

  • The myth of Australia as a land of the 'fair go'

    Liberty Victoria Updates
    Post date: December 24, 2009
    Stephanie Batsakis Australia prides itself on being the land of the ‘fair go’ and yet from an international perspective, this reputation has been tarnished by our recent human rights record. Persistent human rights violations across both Howard and Rudd governments demonstrate that a federal Human... Read more

  • Playing politics with people's lives

    Liberty Victoria Updates
    Post date: December 24, 2009
    Jessie Taylor Since Liberty’s last newsletter, there has been a significant escalation in the game of asylum seeker policy. Perhaps it all started with a phone call from Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to his Indonesian counterpart, asking that Indonesian authorities intervene to prevent a boatload of... Read more

  • The reality of the global refugee crisis

    Liberty Victoria Updates
    Post date: December 24, 2009
    Dr Larry Stillman Public perception of refugees causes razor sharp public anxiety with every boat arrival. Yet after rigorous scrutiny by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees or Australia’s Immigration Department, the vast majority of asylum seekers can in fact be classified as genuine refugees.... Read more

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