Latest articles and news by Liberty Victoria

  • 'We are all accountable': Atlassian chief slams Morrison protest crackdown

    Liberty Victoria in the News
    Post date: November 5, 2019
    Civil liberties groups including Liberty Victoria argued last week that existing laws could be used to punish violent protesters and that calling on consumers to stop spending with a specific company was a form of free speech.

  • Your right to know: The battle to access your own personal information

    Liberty Victoria in the News
    Post date: November 4, 2019

  • Fuhrer Morrison demands silent Australians

    Liberty Victoria in the News
    Post date: November 4, 2019
    Liberty Victoria president Jessie Taylor warned of an “extraordinary incursion into free speech” in Mr Morrison’s stated intention when the right to protest and boycott was at the heart of most liberal democracies.

  • Morrison's boycott plan sparks free-speech furore

    Liberty Victoria in the News
    Post date: November 2, 2019
    Liberty Victoria president Jessie Taylor warned of an "extraordinary incursion into free speech" in Mr Morrison's stated intention when the right to protest and boycott was at the heart of most liberal democracies. "This represents a further significant erosion of that right, from a prime minister... Read more

  • 'We need to understand the fallibility' of surveillance technology

    Liberty Victoria in the News
    Post date: September 28, 2019
    Liberty Victoria President, Jessie Taylor, taks to Derryn Hinch about surveillance technology

  • Big Brother: Every Victorian's driver's licence to be uploaded to database

    Liberty Victoria in the News
    Post date: September 17, 2019
    Liberty Victoria's Gemma Cafarella said facial recognition technology was a "significant erosion" of privacy that locked everyone with a driver's licence into a national database. She said the mere existence of a database could curtail people's freedom of expression and right to protest. "A... Read more

  • ‘It’s a big breach of our privacy’: Concerns over forthcoming national facial recognition database

    Liberty Victoria in the News
    Post date: September 17, 2019
    Civil libertarians have questioned the wider use of driver’s licence photos. “Until such time as we have a proven need that this can actually address, it’s a huge overreach,” Liberty Victoria President Jessie Taylor told 3AW’s Neil Mitchell. “It’s a big breach of our privacy and it’s just... Read more

  • Indigenous People Could Be Detained And Deported If New Law Passes, Lawyers Have Warned

    Liberty Victoria in the News
    Post date: September 12, 2019
    More Indigenous people could be held in immigration detention and deported from Australia if a new migration law is passed, three separate lawyers’ groups, (including Liberty Victoria) have warned.

  • Drug Testing for Newstart Recipients

    Liberty Victoria in the News
    Post date: September 6, 2019
    The proposal to drug test Newstart recipients is based on a narrow and  punitive assumption of the way Newstart recipients conduct their lives. It has no proven benefit. Listen to Jessie Taylor Liberty Victoria president on the Nicole Chvastek's ABC Drive program. Segments starts at 1.06 and Jessie... Read more

  • The Religious Discrimination Bill

    Liberty Victoria in the News
    Post date: September 6, 2019
    The Religious Discrimination Bill, introduced by the Attorney-General Christian Porter, has its flaws. Nevertheless, it walks a more or less acceptable line between arch proponents and critics of the recent campaign for greater religious freedoms. The Government has produced relatively moderate... Read more

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