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Press Release
Post date: March 24, 2020
In light of the developing COVID-19 pandemic, Liberty Victoria supports calls from more than 370 lawyers, academics and advocates to reduce the risk of transmission of COVID-19 in the Australian criminal justice system, especially prisons and youth detention centres (see https://www.abc.net.au/news... Read more
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Liberty Victoria in the News
Post date: March 17, 2020
The decision over the weekend to halt new jury trials in New South Wales and Victoria — Australia’s most populous states — was the first real COVID-19 shock to hit the justice system. It will not be the last.
Julia Kretzenbacher, vice-president of Liberty Victoria, said the organisation’s view... Read more
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Press Release
Post date: March 16, 2020
Sentencing Amendment (Emergency Worker Harm) Bill 2020
Liberty Victoria is strongly opposed to the Sentencing Amendment (Emergency Worker Harm) Bill 2020 (“The Bill”).
The Bill reflects the Government’s intention to further entrench a system of mandatory sentencing that fails to make the... Read more
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Press Release
Post date: March 3, 2020
"There is a genuine risk of innocent people being convicted of crimes they have not committed."
Liberty Victoria strongly opposes the Victorian Government’s recently announced reforms to the law of tendency and coincidence evidence, which it has announced will be based on a Bill before the New... Read more
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Press Release
Post date: March 3, 2020
Liberty Victoria welcomes the Victorian government’s announcement that it is committed to introducing a legislated spent convictions scheme. Once a scheme is legislated, this will bring Victoria in line with every other Australian state and territory, including Queensland, which has had a... Read more
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Liberty Victoria in the News
Post date: February 19, 2020
For nearly a decade, Payam Saadat has fought for compensation over the trauma he endured in immigration detention. More than 60 other cases rely on the result of his trial.
Rick Morton interviewed Liberty Victoria President Julian Burnside for this story whose comments are included in this article.
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Liberty Victoria in the News
Post date: February 19, 2020
Rick Morton discusses the case of Payam Saadat. The federal government is holding up a bid to compensate more than 60 people who allegedly suffered psychological trauma in immigration detention during the Howard years, stalling one lead case just as it was about to go to trial.
Liberty Victoria's... Read more
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Press Release
Post date: February 11, 2020
Liberty Victoria welcomes the High Court’s decision handed down today, which recognises
that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people cannot be considered “aliens” under the
Australian Constitution.
Liberty Victoria calls for the immediate release of all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander... Read more
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Liberty Victoria in the News
Post date: January 30, 2020
LIV Human Rights Committee member and Liberty Victoria vice-president Jamie Gardiner says the legislation "purports to give so-called statements of belief or religious expression absolute precedence preventing any other law, discrimination or otherwise from placing limits on it".
"It is probably... Read more
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Liberty Victoria in the News
Post date: November 14, 2019
The state’s courts are also dealing with record numbers of accused offenders being stuck behind bars as years of tightening bail laws continue to bite.
Liberty Victoria vice-president Jamie Gardiner said changes to the Bail Act were a knee-jerk reaction that would be detrimental for community... Read more
