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Liberty Victoria in the News
Post date: May 4, 2021
No work rights, no study rights, no access to Medicare.
That's the situation facing a number of asylum seekers who are being denied access to bridging visas while they await claims for permanent protection.
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Press Release
Post date: May 3, 2021
The Right Honourable Tony Benn MP once famously remarked ‘the way a government treats refugees is very instructive because it shows you how they would treat the rest of us if they thought they could get away with it’.
Twenty years after the Tampa affair, and the criminalisation of people seeking... Read more
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Liberty Victoria in the News
Post date: May 2, 2021
Some advocates are also questioning whether the ban could potentially be a violation of Australia's international law obligations.
"The section that the minister has made the emergency direction under also requires whatever action is the least restrictive and least intrusive way of dealing with the... Read more
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Press Release
Post date: April 27, 2021
Liberty Victoria's Rights Advocacy Project is calling for a fairer and more transparent bridging visa system for refugees and people seeking asylum who are waiting in the community for their protection claims to be processed, as part of its latest report ‘Bridging the Department's Visa Blindspot... Read more
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Liberty Victoria in the News
Post date: April 22, 2021
"There is a very big difference between people wanting to hand over photos of their weekend via Instagram and giving very sensitive information to government in a way that could be used against them, in for example a criminal prosecution"
Liberty Victoria's Gemma Cafarella, features in this... Read more
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Liberty Victoria in the News
Post date: April 15, 2021
It comes as the Herald Sun on Tuesday revealed a radical plan by the County Court to overhaul the state’s sex offender registration system.
Under the bold plan, judges would have the discretion to leave offenders off the register or remove registered offenders at their discretion.
While supported... Read more
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Liberty Victoria in the News
Post date: April 15, 2021
Isabella Farrell-Hallegraeff, from Liberty Victoria's Rights Advocacy Project, explained that people on bridging visas often wait many years for their claim for refugee status to be assessed. Their visa may run out and not be renewed, without due process. There is a complete a lack of transparency... Read more
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Liberty Victoria in the News
Post date: April 13, 2021
Liberty Victoria's Michael Stanton discusses submissions made to the sex offenders register with Ali Moore
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Liberty Victoria in the News
Post date: April 13, 2021
Liberty Victoria criminal policy committee member barrister Michael Stanton said judges are best placed to decide whether someone should be on the list because they have all the facts about a case.
“The best person to make that decision is a judicial officer that has all the facts, that has expert... Read more
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Liberty Victoria in the News
Post date: April 13, 2021
Civil liberties organisation Liberty Victoria said there were “chronic problems” with the current registration regimen.
These included the rapidly expanding number of registrants, the absence of judicial discretion to leave people off the register and the complexity of reporting obligations.
“The... Read more
