The civil liberties and human rights advocacy group isn't happy about last week's National Cabinet decision to slash the number of international arrivals by half.
In a statement, the group called...
July 6, 2021
Liberty Victoria in the News
Liberty Victoria president Julia Kretzenbacher said the state should replicate WA’s laws because even one instance of police being granted access via a court order would seriously undermine the...
June 22, 2021
Liberty Victoria in the News
Liberty Victoria spokesperson and public law barrister, Gemma Cafarella, says if police have access to check-in data it damages confidence in the system.
“Allowing police access means people might...
June 22, 2021
Liberty Victoria in the News
Greg Buchhorn, a lawyer and policy committee member of civil rights group Liberty Victoria, said the broad State of Emergency laws have resulted in some extreme intrusions on individual rights, such...
June 15, 2021
Liberty Victoria in the News
Liberty Victoria’s Julia Kretzenbacher said the current laws meant people were being remanded in custody for relatively minor indictable offences, such as possession of a small amount of cannabis...
May 17, 2021
Liberty Victoria in the News
No work rights, no study rights, no access to Medicare.
That's the situation facing a number of asylum seekers who are being denied access to bridging visas while they await claims for permanent...
May 4, 2021
Liberty Victoria in the News
Some advocates are also questioning whether the ban could potentially be a violation of Australia's international law obligations.
"The section that the minister has made the emergency direction...
May 2, 2021
Liberty Victoria in the News
"There is a very big difference between people wanting to hand over photos of their weekend via Instagram and giving very sensitive information to government in a way that could be used against them...
April 22, 2021
Liberty Victoria in the News
It comes as the Herald Sun on Tuesday revealed a radical plan by the County Court to overhaul the state’s sex offender registration system.
Under the bold plan, judges would have the discretion to...
April 15, 2021
Liberty Victoria in the News
Isabella Farrell-Hallegraeff, from Liberty Victoria's Rights Advocacy Project, explained that people on bridging visas often wait many years for their claim for refugee status to be assessed. Their...
April 15, 2021
Liberty Victoria in the News