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Liberty Victoria in the News
Post date: July 12, 2022
Jason Roberts will face an uncertain legal path to a major compensation payout for his more than 20 years’ imprisonment because Victoria’s human rights provisions do not carry the same powers that helped deliver acquitted long-term Canberra prisoner David Eastman more than $7m.
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Liberty Victoria in the News
Post date: July 12, 2022
Last week Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus put an end to Canberra lawyer Bernard Collaery’s criminal prosecution.
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Liberty Victoria in the News
Post date: June 29, 2022
Michael Stanton of Liberty Victoria argued at the parliamentary inquiry “that any reform needed to ensure free speech was balanced with people’s right to live without discrimination and violence”.
Banning Nazi symbols also allows the far right to portray themselves as victims of repression. This... Read more
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Liberty Victoria in the News
Post date: June 16, 2022
Australian authorities have had a “myopic” focus on Islamist extremism since 9/11, experts have lamented, warning that it has come at the expense of identifying the rise of far-right extremism.
Liberty Victoria president Michael Stanton said that while the threat of far-right extremism was real and... Read more
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Liberty Victoria in the News
Post date: June 16, 2022
A "myopic" focus on Islamist extremism in Australia since 2001's September 11 attacks in the United States has come at the expense of monitoring the far-right movement, a Victorian parliamentary inquiry has been told.
Liberty Victoria President Michael Stanton acknowledged far-right extremism is... Read more
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Liberty Victoria in the News
Post date: June 16, 2022
Michael Stanton, president of Liberty Victoria, told the upper house’s legal and social issues committee that any reform needed to ensure free speech was balanced with people’s right to live without discrimination and violence.
“We need to make sure that in responding to those confronting scenes in... Read more
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Liberty Victoria in the News
Post date: June 10, 2022
Liberty Victoria president Michael Stanton has stated that “such draconian measures are plainly inappropriate” and appeared to be “intended to have a chilling effect on protest activity”. They strike at the heart of democracy and aim to demonise the importance and legitimacy of non-violent... Read more
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Liberty Victoria in the News
Post date: May 28, 2022
Gemma Cafarella, a barrister and spokesperson for Liberty Victoria, said no evidence had been presented to back up the claim that there was a threat to workers’ safety, or that existing laws, which include penalties of more than $3,000, were not working.
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Liberty Victoria in the News
Post date: May 27, 2022
Liberty Victoria president Michael Stanton said the organisation opposed the new penalties, which appeared to be “plainly intended to have a chilling effect on protest activity”.
“Such protesters have the right to freedom of expression and peaceful assembly under the Victorian Charter of Human... Read more
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Press Release
Post date: May 17, 2022
Liberty Victoria is awarding the 2022 Voltaire Empty Chair Award to Mehdi Ali, a refugee from Ahvaz, Iran who had been held in detention by Australia since 2013 including at the Park Hotel in Melbourne. He was held in detention by Australia for almost a decade, from the age 15 until he was 24. He... Read more