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Liberty Victoria in the News
Post date: October 23, 2020
Liberty Victoria's Sam Norton has a brief appearance on 7 news
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Liberty Victoria in the News
Post date: October 20, 2020
The Andrews government is examining scaling back the botched hotel quarantine program and using electronic monitoring devices for some returned travellers when Victoria opens up to international flights for the first time since early July.
Liberty Victoria president Julian Burnside said monitoring... Read more
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Liberty Victoria in the News
Post date: October 19, 2020
Julia Kretzenbacher discusses the issue of covid-19 fines on the Breakfast program.
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Press Release
Post date: October 14, 2020
The proposal reported on in the media that there was consideration to reduce jury sizes from 12 to 8 is wrong and should not be implemented. Rather than rush through such a fundamental change to a core institution of our criminal justice system the Parliament ought to introduce practical measures... Read more
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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.
