Latest articles and news by Liberty Victoria

  • Court of Appeal condemns mandatory minimum sentencing

    Liberty Victoria in the News
    Post date: July 14, 2022
    Liberty Victoria president Michael Stanton said he “strongly” supported the Court of Appeal’s observations, with his organisation opposing the emergence of mandatory sentencing over the past decade. In a previous submission to an inquiry into Victoria’s criminal justice system, Liberty Victoria... Read more

  • The unconscionable prosecution of Bernard Collaery was an assault on the values Australia holds dear

    Liberty Victoria in the News
    Post date: July 12, 2022
    Last week Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus put an end to Canberra lawyer Bernard Collaery’s criminal prosecution.

  • Jason Roberts: Cleared of killings but cash in doubt - The Australian

    Liberty Victoria in the News
    Post date: July 12, 2022
    Jason Roberts will face an uncertain legal path to a major compensation payout for his more than 20 years’ imprisonment ­because Victoria’s human rights provisions do not carry the same powers that helped deliver ­acquitted long-term Canberra prisoner David Eastman more than $7m. Liberty Victoria... Read more

  • Banning Nazi symbols won’t make the far right go away

    Liberty Victoria in the News
    Post date: June 29, 2022
    Michael Stanton of Liberty Victoria argued at the parliamentary inquiry “that any reform needed to ensure free speech was balanced with people’s right to live without discrimination and violence”. Banning Nazi symbols also allows the far right to portray themselves as victims of repression. This... Read more

  • Focus on Islamist extremism linked to neo-Nazi rise, as 10-year-old kids radicalised

    Liberty Victoria in the News
    Post date: June 16, 2022
    Australian authorities have had a “myopic” focus on Islamist extremism since 9/11, experts have lamented, warning that it has come at the expense of identifying the rise of far-right extremism. Liberty Victoria president Michael Stanton said that while the threat of far-right extremism was real and... Read more

  • 'Myopic' focus on extremism hurting monitoring of far-right movement, Victorian inquiry told

    Liberty Victoria in the News
    Post date: June 16, 2022
    A "myopic" focus on Islamist extremism in Australia since 2001's September 11 attacks in the United States has come at the expense of monitoring the far-right movement, a Victorian parliamentary inquiry has been told. Liberty Victoria President Michael Stanton acknowledged far-right extremism is... Read more

  • Efforts to combat far-right extremism must not curtail civil liberties, Victorian inquiry hears

    Liberty Victoria in the News
    Post date: June 16, 2022
    Michael Stanton, president of Liberty Victoria, told the upper house’s legal and social issues committee that any reform needed to ensure free speech was balanced with people’s right to live without discrimination and violence. “We need to make sure that in responding to those confronting scenes in... Read more

  • Andrews government’s forestry bill puts logging over liberties

    Liberty Victoria in the News
    Post date: June 10, 2022
    Liberty Victoria president Michael Stanton has stated that “such draconian measures are plainly inappropriate” and appeared to be “intended to have a chilling effect on protest activity”. They strike at the heart of democracy and aim to demonise the importance and legitimacy of non-violent... Read more

  • Victorian and Tasmanian governments under fire for laws that target environmental protesters

    Liberty Victoria in the News
    Post date: May 28, 2022
    Gemma Cafarella, a barrister and spokesperson for Liberty Victoria, said no evidence had been presented to back up the claim that there was a threat to workers’ safety, or that existing laws, which include penalties of more than $3,000, were not working.

  • Andrews government moves to jail native forest logging protesters

    Liberty Victoria in the News
    Post date: May 27, 2022
    Liberty Victoria president Michael Stanton said the organisation opposed the new penalties, which appeared to be “plainly intended to have a chilling effect on protest activity”. “Such protesters have the right to freedom of expression and peaceful assembly under the Victorian Charter of Human... Read more

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