Government, Regulation and Equality
Latest Content
Liberty Victoria today warned against moves to wind back access to the courts for environmental groups.
The attack on access follows a successful challenge by a Queensland conservation group in the...
August 20, 2015
Press Release
Liberty Victoria supports a terminally ill person’s right to die with dignity. As early as 1998 Liberty Victoria produced a booklet titled The Final Choice – Considerations on Choosing to Die, and...
August 5, 2015
Submission
The decision by an Egyptian court to once again adjourn the re-trial of television’s “three brothers”, journalists Peter Greste, Baher Mohamed and Mohamed Fahmy, came as they were awarded Australia’s...
August 3, 2015
Press Release
Liberty Victoria with the support of the Alan Missen Foundation is delighted to announce that Jennifer Robinson will be giving the 2015 Alan Missen Oration at the Melbourne Writers Festival....
July 25, 2015
Event
Civil liberties groups today warned that moves by the federal government to strip citizenship would not make Australians safer.
“To expel a person who has engaged in terrorism related offences and...
July 24, 2015
Press Release
The Federal Government is urged to redouble its efforts to help an Australian journalist and his colleague facing charges of criminal defamation and computer crimes in Thailand.
“Just as in the case...
July 8, 2015
Press Release
January 20, 2015
Submission
A reluctance to acknowledge the existence of racial profiling and a misunderstanding of how racism can be part of police practice underscores the need for better education in the Victoria Police,...
August 17, 2013
Press Release
Australia is the only Western democracy without some kind of charter or bill of rights. Though the Commonwealth Constitution contains some limited rights, such as the right to interstate trade and...
January 29, 2009
Policy
It is a fundamental principle of any democratic society that all those living within it have equal access to a justice system where they can expect, and be given, a determination of their rights...
January 29, 2009
Policy