Michael Pearce SC
LIBERTY Victoria, like many civil liberties and human rights organisations, has endured a decade or more of non-stop action: we have spent much of the last 10 years reeling from...
February 17, 2009
Liberty Victoria Updates
Georgia King-Siem
AS MOST readers would be aware, Dr Mohamed Haneef was arrested, detained, charged and prosecuted by the Australian government in connection with terrorist bombings in the UK. At the...
February 17, 2009
Liberty Victoria Updates
Spencer Zifcak
LATE last year, the Rudd Government made good on its promise to establish a national consultation on human rights. The purpose of the consultation is to make recommendations to the...
February 17, 2009
Liberty Victoria Updates
Anne O'Rourke
HISTORY was made in Victoria on 22 October 2008 when, after a long and often acrimonious debate, the Abortion Law Reform Bill became law with convincing votes in both houses of...
February 17, 2009
Liberty Victoria Updates
Rachel Ball
IT'S a busy time for Australia in the international human rights arena. In the coming months our performance under the two main human rights treaties will be reviewed by UN treaty bodies...
February 17, 2009
Liberty Victoria Updates
Georgia King-Siem
IN AUGUST 2008, the Attorney-General announced that the Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC) would undertake a review of Australia’s secrecy laws. In particular, the ALRC will...
February 17, 2009
Liberty Victoria Updates
Michael Pearce SC, 14 February 2007
The Government's 'access card' will be an identity card in all but name.
If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, you can be pretty sure...
February 17, 2009
Liberty Victoria Updates
21 November 2008
A COALITION of lawyers, academics and community organisations has today called upon the Attorney-General to publicly release the report of the Clarke Inquiry into the case of Dr...
February 4, 2009
Liberty Victoria Updates
2007
‘Capital punishment’
10 October 2007
‘Minister Andrews hits a new low’
8 October 2007
‘Australians should be alert and alarmed at police powers to censor the Internet’
25 September 2007
‘...
February 2, 2009
Liberty Victoria Updates
14 June 2007
LIBERTY welcomes the Government's and the VLRC's emphasis on the need to accord the rights of children paramount importance. This is an important principle of international law and human...
February 2, 2009
Liberty Victoria Updates