Michael Pearce SC
There are three major developments at Liberty to report on since my last column. The first is the completion of the National Consultation on Human Rights which occurred on 15 June...
August 9, 2009
Liberty Victoria Updates
Brian Walters SC and Hugh Crosthwaite
Sir Robert Menzies once said that Australia would only ever have a perfect democracy when every Australian was educated to their absolute capacity. In aid of...
August 9, 2009
Liberty Victoria Updates
Andrew Vincent
The National Human Rights Consultation Committee will report to the Australian Government on 30 September 2009, having received more than 40,000 submissions in the ten months since the...
August 9, 2009
Liberty Victoria Updates
Lucie O'Brien
The ABC’s Four Corners program recently aired the story of Mr Ward, a West Australian indigenous man who died in custody in January 2008. Mr Ward had been drink driving and was on his...
August 9, 2009
Liberty Victoria Updates
Ergun Cakal
With the recent international push for renewed recognition of rights of people with disabilities and Australia’s recent ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of...
August 9, 2009
Liberty Victoria Updates
Dr Paul Gardner
Dr Larry Stillman (‘Free Speech and Intercommunal Conflict’, Liberty News, Issue 3) doesn’t argue the case explicitly, but he seems to imply that the organised Jewish community...
August 9, 2009
Liberty Victoria Updates
Natalie Simpson
The sinister practice of transporting women over international borders for the purpose of imprisoning them as sex slaves is something that most people choose to believe does not...
August 9, 2009
Liberty Victoria Updates
Rachel Ball
In the first half of 2009, two United Nations committees issued report cards on the state of human rights in Australia, following extensive reviews of Australia’s compliance with the...
August 9, 2009
Liberty Victoria Updates