There's growing anger towards COVID-deniers who film themselves breaching public health restrictions. They claim it's their legal right to disobey the Chief Health Officer's orders. For an expert...
Liberty Victoria in the News
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Media Type: VideoDate: July 29, 2020
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Media Type: Audio - ABC - Law Report
Julian Burnside president of Liberty Victoria discusses the trial of 2020 Voltaire Empty Chair Human Rights award winner Bernard Collaery in a radio interview on the ABC's Law Report.
Date: July 14, 2020 -
Media Type: Article - Croakey
Victorian Council for Civil Liberties urged the Government to act with fewer police and more social workers, nurses, drug and alcohol clinicians and mental health support, warning “this is a...
Date: July 5, 2020 -
Media Type: Audio - 3AW
Liberty Victoria, MIke Stanton interviewed by Tom Elliott on 3AW about compulsory Covid-19 testing
Date: July 1, 2020 -
Media Type: Article - The Age
A Liberty Victoria spokesman told The Age that he believed Victoria's parliament would need to pass a law allowing the charter to be overriden if the government wanted to make testing...
Date: June 30, 2020 -
Media Type: Article - ABC News
Liberty Victoria has now started advocating for Mr Chau, saying there has been a lack of public condemnation from the Australian Government in his case.
Martin Radzaj, the chair of the...
Date: June 30, 2020 -
Media Type: Article - John Menadue – Pearls and Irritations
A disturbing and distressing new development has occurred in the Commonwealth’s policies with respect to immigration detention. Pursuant to an amendment to the Migration Act (Cth), non-citizens...
Date: June 26, 2020 -
Media Type: Article - The Age
Liberty Victoria co-chair Sam Norton, a prominent defence lawyer, said the prevention of a coronavirus outbreak in the prison system was a success. "We always knew they would take a really...
Date: June 18, 2020 -
Media Type: Article - The Citizen
A bungled police raid on a gay bookshop one year ago left an innocent man with severe injuries and sent shockwaves through Victoria’s LGBTQ community. Now there are fears of further fallout in the...
Date: May 8, 2020 -
Media Type: Article - Zero Hanger
“Breaches like this seriously undermine the capacity of Victorians to put that trust in police,” Liberty Victoria’s Gemma Cafarella also stated.
Date: May 5, 2020