Latest articles and news by Liberty Victoria
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Press ReleasePost date: July 10, 2023Liberty Victoria welcomes the Royal Commission into the Robodebt Scheme’s final report, which was handed down on Friday 7 July 2023. Liberty Victoria calls on the Federal Government to implement all the report’s 57 recommendations and to formally inquire into all forms of welfare debt, to the... Read more
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Press ReleasePost date: June 29, 2023Liberty Victoria proudly supports a Yes vote in the historic referendum that will take place later this year. Currently, Australia’s constitution does not recognise the First Peoples of Australia. By voting Yes, Australians have an opportunity to ensure that First Peoples are appropriately... Read more
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Press ReleasePost date: June 7, 2023Liberty Victoria is pleased to announce that the winner of the 2023 Voltaire Human Rights Award is human rights and Raise the Age advocate Sophie Trevitt. The Voltaire Human Rights Award honours a person who has made an outstanding contribution to human rights, free speech, and/or civil liberties... Read more
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Liberty Victoria in the NewsPost date: April 26, 2023Michael Stanton, president of civil liberties group Liberty Victoria, said it was a “weak decision from a government still paranoid about being wedged on law and order instead of committing to evidence-based reform”. “The Victorian government has ignored repeated calls from First Peoples and... Read more
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Press ReleasePost date: April 5, 2023Liberty Victoria endorses the recommendation of the Independent National Security Legislation Monitor (INSLM) that Continuing Detention Orders (CDOs) be abolished. A CDO is a court order that keeps a person who has committed a terrorism offence in prison beyond the end of their sentence. It is made... Read more
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Press ReleasePost date: March 20, 2023Liberty Victoria condemns, in the strongest terms, the disturbing scenes outside the Victorian Parliament on 18 March 2023. This follows on from events over recent times where we have seen young men making Nazi salutes in the Grampians, gallows erected outside Parliament, and federal and state... Read more
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Liberty Victoria in the NewsPost date: March 14, 2023Several years after a hospital safety and quality review recommended it, the state’s data sharing network may come online next year. Legal and privacy advocacy groups – including the Law Institute of Victoria, Liberty Victoria and Digital Rights Watch – raised concerns about privacy, since patients... Read more
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Liberty Victoria in the NewsPost date: March 10, 2023But Liberty Victoria said proponents of the legislation were using a "straw man" argument, and it was not acceptable to justify the model on the grounds it is done in states like NSW or is better than the status quo. "No one takes issue that the sharing of health information is convenient and... Read more
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Liberty Victoria in the NewsPost date: March 9, 2023While welcoming improved protections, Liberty Victoria president Michael Stanton said the amendments don't remedy the bill's foundational problem of not having an opt-out mechanism. "We understand the desirability of health information sharing for medical professionals, but the bill fails to give... Read more
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Press ReleasePost date: March 7, 2023The LIV, Liberty Victoria and Digital Rights Watch call on members of the Legislative Council to respect patient autonomy to legislate for an opt-out provision to ensure that Victorians have the right to decide whether or not their medical information will be shared across public health services. ... Read more
