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December 31, 2009
Liberty Victoria Updates
Michael Pearce SC
This is my first President’s column in my second term as President. I was re-elected unopposed at our Annual General Meeting held on Monday 23 November 2009. Also elected to the...
December 24, 2009
Liberty Victoria Updates
Stephanie Batsakis
Australia prides itself on being the land of the ‘fair go’ and yet from an international perspective, this reputation has been tarnished by our recent human rights record....
December 24, 2009
Liberty Victoria Updates
Jessie Taylor
Since Liberty’s last newsletter, there has been a significant escalation in the game of asylum seeker policy. Perhaps it all started with a phone call from Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to...
December 24, 2009
Liberty Victoria Updates
Dr Larry Stillman
Public perception of refugees causes razor sharp public anxiety with every boat arrival. Yet after rigorous scrutiny by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees or Australia’s...
December 24, 2009
Liberty Victoria Updates
Natalie Simpson
Legal representation for victims in international criminal trials is an interesting and emerging field of international criminal law currently being developed through the...
December 24, 2009
Liberty Victoria Updates
Kate Mallinson
The second Electoral Reform Green Paper was released for comment on September 23. Since 1918 the Commonwealth Electoral Act has only been rewritten once, in 1984, and consequently much...
December 24, 2009
Liberty Victoria Updates
Tim Warner
Should you visit a Medicare health practitioner in the second half of 2010, you will be asked to identify yourself from a list of persons who have similar names and birth dates. This will...
December 24, 2009
Liberty Victoria Updates
Michael Pearce SC
In a surprise but welcome move, a senior NSW politician has called for an end to the law-and-order auctions which have prevailed in NSW politics since the 1980s. And this was not...
December 24, 2009
Liberty Victoria Updates
Dr Alice de Jonge
When the Charter of Human Rights and Responsibilities Act was enacted in 2006 it appeared that a new era had arrived in the relationship between government and citizens in Victoria...
December 24, 2009
Liberty Victoria Updates