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Liberty Victoria in the News
Post date: August 30, 2022
Liberty Victoria President Michael Stanton warned against sweeping reforms to combat the influence of far-right extremism during public hearings in June.
"We need to make sure that in responding to those confronting scenes ... that we do not have a legislative response that throws the baby out with... Read more
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Press Release
Post date: August 25, 2022
Liberty Victoria is pleased to announce that Sitarah Mohammadi and Sajjad Askary are the 2022 Liberty Victoria Young Voltaire Human Rights Award recipients.
The Young Voltaire Human Rights Award honours a person or group of people who are no older than 30 at the date of their nomination for an... Read more
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Press Release
Post date: August 9, 2022
Climate change has wrought devastating consequences in Australia — bushfires and floods have caused significant loss of life and mass displacement; bleaching events have affected large parts of the Great Barrier Reef; and rising sea levels are threatening Country protected by First Nations peoples... Read more
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Liberty Victoria in the News
Post date: August 5, 2022
Liberty Victoria president Michael Stanton said the country was facing a new frontier in the collection and use of DNA and warned people to approach with caution.
He said the increasing use of this technology should also give rise to questions about how this information could be used... Read more
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Liberty Victoria in the News
Post date: August 5, 2022
Liberty Victoria's submission was referred to frequently in the report, for example: "Inquiry stakeholders advocated for legislative change to allow greater consideration of the interests of children in sentencing their parents, specifically regarding the high bar set by the ‘exceptional’ test.... Read more
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Liberty Victoria in the News
Post date: July 25, 2022
Jaimie Gardiner is also a leader of the Australian LGBTQ community; in 2019 he was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia. As early as 1974 he was leading a campaign to decriminalize gay sex, and in the 1980s founded the Victorian AIDS Council. Currently, he is serving as Vice-President of... Read more
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Liberty Victoria in the News
Post date: July 22, 2022
Liberty's president discusses mandatory minimum sentencing in depth from 1.02 on 3CRs Thursday Breakfast program.
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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
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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
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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.
