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Press Release
Post date: December 5, 2016
Public safety and the State budget will suffer as a result of harsh new measures by the Andrews Government, Liberty Victoria warned today.
The human rights group’s president, Jessie Taylor, said “The use of the word ‘reforms’ in the announcement implies improvements. But longer jail terms for... Read more
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Liberty Victoria in the News
Post date: December 5, 2016
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Liberty Victoria Updates
Post date: December 1, 2016
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Press Release
Post date: December 1, 2016
Community lawyer and lecturer Jessie Taylor has been elected president of one of Australia's leading human rights organisations,
Liberty Victoria.
Ms Taylor BA(Hons) LLB(Hons) MSc(HA) is a lecturer in the Faculty of Law at Monash University and on the Board of the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre.
“... Read more
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Liberty Victoria in the News
Post date: November 22, 2016
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Press Release
Post date: November 15, 2016
Teenagers don't belong in an adult jail, even when things get hard. Placing them with adult prisoners is exposing them to dangerous influences and the risk of abuse.
Eighty per cent of those in Parkville Juvenile Justice Centre are on remand, that is, they haven't been convicted and sentenced. Some... Read more
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Liberty Victoria Updates
Post date: November 14, 2016
Listen to Liberty Vice President Michael Stanton on RRR The Party Show discussing the overcrowding of prisons and mandatory sentencing:
At 51.22 minutes:
http://ondemand.rrr.org.au/player/128/201611130000
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Press Release
Post date: November 8, 2016
Rights group flays
Refugee life ban
The human rights group Liberty Victoria has condemned the Federal Government's decision to ban any asylum seeker who has attempted to reach Australia.
Liberty president George Georgiou SC said, "This is is total overreach. It ignores the fact that the government... Read more
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Liberty Victoria in the News
Post date: October 29, 2016
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Press Release
Post date: October 12, 2016
State Government plans to jail more people will not make Victorians safer, rights group Liberty Victoria warned today.
"Practical experience of the criminal justice system has long shown that in many cases offenders who are imprisoned pose a greater risk to the community upon release due to the... Read more
