October 29, 2016
Liberty Victoria in the News
Liberty Victoria is very concerned about the Victorian Government’s announcement on proposed reforms to the Community Correction Order (‘CCO’) regime. The reforms should be strongly opposed.
The...
October 12, 2016
Submission
State Government plans to jail more people will not make Victorians safer, rights group Liberty Victoria warned today.
"Practical experience of the criminal justice system has long shown that in...
October 12, 2016
Press Release
Joint Submission for the United Kingdom’s Universal Periodic Review in 2017 submitted by a coalition of the following international human rights, fair trial and jurist organisations:
Center for...
September 23, 2016
Submission
Liberty Victoria is deeply concerned about the gradual erosion of judicial discretion in sentencing and the move towards mandatory and/or more prescriptive models of sentencing. Part of that concern...
September 14, 2016
Submission
We are delighted to have John Silvester as our speaker at the 2016 AGM.
Whenever major crime stories break in Victoria inevitably it is John Silvester who leads the pack with exclusive news. A winner...
September 2, 2016
Event Calendar
Trivia + laughs + human rights
Join us at the City of Melbourne Bowls Club on Friday October 7 to support YLLR's work. Trivia, drink specials, finger food and a comedically-gifted MC (Michael Shafar...
September 1, 2016
Event Calendar
The Victorian Police Minister has foreshadowed laws to ban masks at protests. There have been reports that such laws may be of two kinds:
Laws making it an offence to wear masks at protests and...
August 17, 2016
Submission
The Councils for Civil Liberties (“CCLs”)[1] have made a joint submission to the Independent National Security Legislation Monitor’s (INSLM) inquiry into certain questioning and detention powers (...
August 17, 2016
Submission
August 15, 2016
Liberty Victoria in the News