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Liberty Victoria in the News
Post date: October 14, 2020
Liberty Victoria vice-president Julia Kretzenbacher called on police to show restraint with fines, and to instead issue more warnings to people found to be breaching coronavirus lockdown rules.
"The fines are quite high and people are struggling financially and it's therefore no surprise that... Read more
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Liberty Victoria in the News
Post date: September 24, 2020
The Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews is standing firm on retaining the 9pm-5am curfew for Melbourne, even though new cases of the virus continue to dip.
Michael Stanton is a spokesman for the civil rights group Liberty Victoria - he spoke to NewsRadio's Tracey Holmes.
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Liberty Victoria in the News
Post date: September 23, 2020
The state government insists expanded police powers are needed to help battle Covid-19, but civil rights groups disagree
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Liberty Victoria in the News
Post date: September 21, 2020
Liberty Victoria president Julian Burnside said: "If the punishment reduces the likelihood of obtaining the ultimate objective of the offence – which in this case, is reducing the spread of coronavirus – punishment doesn't always make sense."
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Liberty Victoria in the News
Post date: September 21, 2020
The state government insists expanded police powers are needed to help battle Covid-19, but civil rights groups disagree.
The Covid-19 omnibus (emergency measures) and other acts amendment bill 2020, which went before parliament this week, proposes to broaden the type of people who can be appointed... Read more
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Liberty Victoria in the News
Post date: September 18, 2020
Liberty Victoria's press release gets a mention in this 10 news report.
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Press Release
Post date: September 17, 2020
Liberty Victoria is very concerned about the new powers sought to be introduced by the COVID‑19 (Emergency Measures) Bill.
In particular, we are concerned about how the new powers of what seems to be preventative detention will affect vulnerable people. We have previously publicly discussed these... Read more
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Liberty Victoria in the News
Post date: September 15, 2020
Liberty Victoria expressed alarm at the idea of detaining people who might spread COVID-19 arguing the proposed law would unfairly target those with severe mental health issues.
“We are particularly concerned that people who aren’t intentionally doing the wrong thing ... people who for many reasons... Read more
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Liberty Victoria in the News
Post date: September 14, 2020
Civil rights groups call for inquiry after man taken to hospital and put into induced coma. A spokesman for the civil rights group, Liberty Victoria, agreed the case should be referred to IBAC.
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Press Release
Post date: September 10, 2020
Liberty Victoria is deeply concerned by reports that some of the extraordinary measures introduced by the Government, and in particular the imposition of a curfew, were not made on the considered advice of public health officials and Victoria Police.
Liberty Victoria has repeatedly accepted that,... Read more