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Liberty Victoria in the News
Post date: May 4, 2020
Liberty Victoria, the state’s leading civil liberties advocate, condemned the social media circulation of two private photos, saying it was a “deplorable breach of privacy”.
“The transphobic overtones only serve to make the breach even more egregious,” Liberty Victoria tweeted.
“Not good enough @... Read more
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Liberty Victoria in the News
Post date: May 4, 2020
Liberty Victoria's Gemma Cafarella said the leak damaged the public's trust in Victoria Police and further eroded the relationship between police and the transgender and gender non-conforming communities.
"Victorians need to be able to trust police with a whole lot of their personal information in... Read more
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Liberty Victoria in the News
Post date: April 29, 2020
The Victorian government is working on regulations to ensure tenants are not worse off under rental law changes intended to protect them during the coronavirus crisis.
The legislation, which passed during an emergency sitting of state parliament last week, left real estate and human rights... Read more
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Liberty Victoria in the News
Post date: April 29, 2020
Human rights organisation Liberty Victoria says the change is “unprecedented”.
“It puts so much more power in the hands of the landlord,” a Liberty spokeswoman said.
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Liberty Victoria in the News
Post date: April 28, 2020
The freedom of Victorian tenants to choose where they live could be substantially restricted under new COVID-19 laws.
The temporary law is a significant departure from the original one requiring the tenant to provide 28 days' written notice before leaving - no reason needed.
Human rights... Read more
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Press Release
Post date: April 23, 2020
Last week the Victorian Government promised that changes to rental laws would allow renters affected by COVID-19 to more easily move out of their rental properties.
The draft laws have been released today. Instead of making things better, these laws will put unprecedented limits on the ability of... Read more
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Liberty Victoria in the News
Post date: April 22, 2020
Sydney Criminal Lawyers spoke with Liberty Victoria spokesperson Michael Stanton about the issues an expansion of police powers can result in, the confusion around whether these laws rule out socially distanced protesting and his organisation’s concerns about the PM’s tracing app.
"Liberty Victoria... Read more
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Liberty Victoria in the News
Post date: April 22, 2020
The vice president of Liberty Victoria, Julia Kretzenbacher, said Mr Kennedy's case highlighted the potential for problems with the justice system during the COVID-19 outbreak.
"[Mr Kennedy's] case concerned me because our systems should be careful and look after people like him who are vulnerable... Read more
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Liberty Victoria in the News
Post date: April 21, 2020
Liberty Victoria's Michael Stanton and other lawyers discuss the Good Friday Protest and other Covid-19 restrictions.
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Press Release
Post date: April 19, 2020
The emergence of the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) has changed all our lives in ways we could never have imagined. Through swift and decisive action on physical distancing and movement restriction, the Federal and Victorian governments seem to have steered us away from the catastrophic situations... Read more
