Michael Pearce SC
THE Committee held its annual planning day on Sunday 22 February 2009. The planning day is an opportunity for the Committee to think strategically about the year ahead, to reflect...
April 10, 2009
Liberty Victoria Updates
Larry Stillman
I GLANCED through an old book before I started to write this article. It’s nearly 40 years since Geoffrey Dutton and Max Harris published Australia’s Censorship Crisis, and aside from...
April 10, 2009
Liberty Victoria Updates
Joshua Bernshaw
In Franz Kafka’s The Trial, Josef K wakes one morning to find he has been arrested for a mysterious and unidentified offence. I have always imagined Josef K might have thought himself...
April 10, 2009
Liberty Victoria Updates
Philippa Briglia and Lizzy Fitzgerald
YOUNG people consistently prove that they care deeply about issues of social and political importance and are prepared to commit themselves wholeheartedly to...
April 10, 2009
Liberty Victoria Updates
Aggy Kapitaniak
WHAT happens if an official does get it wrong? You have two injustices: the wrong and then the black mark against your name to remind you that you were wronged. A criminal conviction...
April 10, 2009
Liberty Victoria Updates
Georgia King-Siem
THE ‘Australia’s Rights to Know’ conference in Sydney on 24 March was essentially a conference by the media, for the media. Its focus was freedom of information (FOI) reform and...
April 10, 2009
Liberty Victoria Updates