Longer jail terms for serious offences do not mean a safer community but may have the reverse effect, Liberty Victoria warned today.
“They may have a simplistic appeal, especially when parties are...
April 3, 2014
Press Release
April 2, 2014
Liberty Victoria in the News
Thomas Kane is a Melbourne businessman and photographer who joined the Management Committee of Liberty Victoria in 2010. He sits on the Advisory Board of the Castan Centre for Human Rights Law at...
March 30, 2014
Committee
Tim Warner has been working on Privacy and e-Health issues at Liberty since 2008. A former Treasurer of Liberty, he is normally engaged in the boating industry at Anchor Marine of Sandringham. He...
March 30, 2014
Committee
LIBERTY SLAMS BRANDIS CHANGES TO THE RDA
Liberty Victoria today attacked new government proposals to dilute protections against racist speech.
Liberty President, Jane Dixon SC, said that ‘freedom of...
March 28, 2014
Press Release
A great photographer's work for a fine cause
Liberty Victoria was proud to present this fascinating selection of signed, original photographs by the acclaimed photographer Wolfgang Sievers. The...
March 17, 2014
Event
The tragedy at Manus Island was foreseeable.
As observed by the Human Rights Law Centre, Australia has sent 1300 asylum seekers to Manus Island for ‘processing and resettlement’, but not one person...
February 19, 2014
Press Release
As the community contemplates the Victorian Government’s decision to, as Premier Denis Napthine puts it, have the Hoddle Street murderer Julian Knight “rot in jail”, it is worth looking at similar...
February 18, 2014
Press Release
Rights Advocacy Project is a community of lawyers and activists working to advance human rights in Australia. We’re part of Liberty Victoria, one of Australia’s leading human rights organisations.
We...
February 3, 2014
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