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...
November 5, 2019
Liberty Victoria in the News
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...
November 4, 2019
Liberty Victoria in the News
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...
November 2, 2019
Liberty Victoria in the News
In earlier remarks on the planned, now Exposure Draft, Bill (“the EDB”) the Attorney-General appeared to contemplate an ordinary anti-discrimination law along the lines of existing federal (and...
October 21, 2019
Submission
Liberty Victoria is profoundly concerned that some aged care providers may conflate the notion of medical incapacity with legal capacity and this denies many vulnerable residents their right to...
October 1, 2019
Submission
Liberty Victoria President, Jessie Taylor, taks to Derryn Hinch about surveillance technology
September 28, 2019
Liberty Victoria in the News
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...
September 17, 2019
Liberty Victoria in the News
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...
September 6, 2019
Liberty Victoria in the News
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...
September 6, 2019
Liberty Victoria in the News
The robodebt scheme is arguably a ‘retrogressive measure’ in breach of Australia’s international human rights obligations as they pertain to the right to social security. The Government’s attempts to...
August 27, 2019
Submission