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Civil rights organisation Liberty Victoria says the government is effectively writing itself a blank cheque with a 12-month extension, which is inconsistent with the preservation of human rights....
August 25, 2020
Liberty Victoria in the News
Liberty Victoria's Vice President Julia Kretzenbacher discusses the Stage 4 lockdown including fines, the need interpret complex statutes and the lateness of directions being published. Starts at...
August 11, 2020
Liberty Victoria in the News
Liberty Victoria's Martin Radzaj discusses the case of Australian Van Kham Chau located within Vietnam's prison system on 3CRs Done by Law 11 Aug
From 11.25 in the program on 11 August
August 11, 2020
Liberty Victoria in the News
ABC News interviewed Liberty Victoria's Vice President Julia Kretzenbacher. Is the requirement to wear face masks a breach of human rights? Will the incantation of magic words such as "I am a...
July 29, 2020
Liberty Victoria in the News
Liberty Victoria advocates for the rights and freedoms of people when it believes they are threatened by governments and organisations.
Its vice president Julia Kretzenbacher, who is a barrister,...
July 29, 2020
Liberty Victoria in the News
There's growing anger towards COVID-deniers who film themselves breaching public health restrictions. They claim it's their legal right to disobey the Chief Health Officer's orders. For an expert...
July 29, 2020
Liberty Victoria in the News
Julian Burnside president of Liberty Victoria discusses the trial of 2020 Voltaire Empty Chair Human Rights award winner Bernard Collaery in a radio interview on the ABC's Law Report.
July 14, 2020
Liberty Victoria in the News
When Dylan Alcott gives presentations, he sometimes asks the question “What’s worse than being in a wheelchair?”
Then he flashes up a picture of someone wearing that often contentious form of...
July 10, 2020
Press Release
The secret trials of lawyer Bernard Collaery and Witness J challenge one of the fundamental bases of our legal system: the requirement for open justice and accountability.
In recognition of these...
July 8, 2020
Press Release
The recent investigation into Dyson Heydon's behaviour causes me to reflect with bittersweet gratitude on the time I spent as a Judge's Associate. I was Associate to a big-hearted, generous, clever...
July 4, 2020
Liberty Victoria in the News