Latest articles and news by Liberty Victoria
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Press ReleasePost date: July 1, 2021Last week, on the same day that IBAC released its damning report into Victorian prisons, we marked the 15 year anniversary of the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (OPCAT) coming into force. And last weekend we marked... Read more
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Press ReleasePost date: June 29, 2021Liberty Victoria is delighted to announce that the 2021 Voltaire Human Rights Award is being awarded to the Children of Tanya Day. The Voltaire Human Rights Award honours a person or group have made outstanding contributions to human rights, free speech or civil liberties, with particular emphasis... Read more
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Press ReleasePost date: June 24, 2021VALS, Liberty Victoria, the Flemington & Kensington Community Legal Centre, the Human Rights Law Centre and Fitzroy Legal Service call on the Andrews Government to implement laws to protect Victorians’ private information that is being collected for contact tracing. Check in data has played a... Read more
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Liberty Victoria in the NewsPost date: June 22, 2021Liberty Victoria president Julia Kretzenbacher said the state should replicate WA’s laws because even one instance of police being granted access via a court order would seriously undermine the public’s willingness to check in. “This is not a matter of not trusting Victoria’s court system. It’s... Read more
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Liberty Victoria in the NewsPost date: June 22, 2021Liberty Victoria spokesperson and public law barrister, Gemma Cafarella, says if police have access to check-in data it damages confidence in the system. “Allowing police access means people might not check in,” she told Ross and Russel. “This shouldn’t really be about the police, it’s about... Read more
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Liberty Victoria in the NewsPost date: June 15, 2021Greg Buchhorn, a lawyer and policy committee member of civil rights group Liberty Victoria, said the broad State of Emergency laws have resulted in some extreme intrusions on individual rights, such as forcing new prisoners to do 14 days of quarantine - “effectively solitary confinement” - even... Read more
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Liberty Victoria UpdatesPost date: June 10, 2021Buy Premium Wines Here The Voltaire Awards Committee are working hard behind the scenes, organising our live online webinar awards presentation and Q and A panel with recipients. We will be announcing the recipients in the next few weeks. The event will be held on Thursday 27 July at 7pm. While... Read more
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Liberty Victoria in the NewsPost date: May 17, 2021Liberty Victoria’s Julia Kretzenbacher said the current laws meant people were being remanded in custody for relatively minor indictable offences, such as possession of a small amount of cannabis or theft, if they’re already on bail over more-serious charges.
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Liberty Victoria in the NewsPost date: May 4, 2021No 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 ReleasePost date: May 3, 2021The 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
