Brian Walters, 8 April 2005
Victoria has a problem with police shootings and a system of control and inquiry that is patently inadequate.
Police have to deal with some dangerous people, and violence...
May 8, 2009
Liberty Victoria Updates
Brian Walters, December 2006
… the common values that bind us together as one people – respect for the freedom and dignity of the individual, a commitment to the rule of law, the equality of men and...
May 8, 2009
Liberty Victoria Updates
Brian Walters, 7 August 2006
Over 20 years ago, anthropologists in the Northern Territory accompanied local indigenous people when they went fishing. Drifting well out to sea, with the shore only...
May 8, 2009
Liberty Victoria Updates
Brian Walters, 17 August 2006
In December last year, four untrained, unfunded Christian pacifists broke into Pine Gap to engage in a “citizens’ inspection”.
Despite this being a top secret base,...
May 8, 2009
Liberty Victoria Updates
Brian Walters, 13 September 2005
Last weekend our nation crossed a line. On Saturday, a visiting tourist was arrested in Melbourne by the Australian Federal Police, on instructions from the...
May 8, 2009
Liberty Victoria Updates
Brian Walters, 31 December 2006
FOR years after David Hicks was first detained, the Bush administration argued that prisoners at Guantanamo were beyond the reach of the courts — in a legal black hole...
May 8, 2009
Liberty Victoria Updates
Brian Walters
Just when it seemed the problems in Aboriginal Australia could not get any worse they appeared to do just that. Recently some Federal politicians “discovered” child sexual abuse and...
May 8, 2009
Liberty Victoria Updates
Brian Walters, 17 November 2007
THE hearings before the Office of Police Integrity again raise the issue of police corruption. Those hearings may well give rise to further proceedings, and it is best...
May 8, 2009
Liberty Victoria Updates
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