Dr Larry Stillman
The past year or so has seen pressure from some lobby groups in the Jewish community against a number of public events in Melbourne and Sydney as well as Fairfax media or the ABC...
May 29, 2009
Liberty Victoria Updates
Dr Diane Sisely
December 10, 2008, marked the day 60 years ago when the world agreed on the principles and values necessary to safeguard if people are to be able to live a decent life, with dignity...
May 29, 2009
Liberty Victoria Updates
Nerida MulveyIn 2006, the UN General Assembly mandated an in-depth study on all forms of violence against women. The study outlines due diligence obligations of states, asserting: ‘States have an...
May 29, 2009
Liberty Victoria Updates
Brian Walters, 8 April 2005
Victoria has a problem with police shootings and a system of control and inquiry that is patently inadequate.
Police have to deal with some dangerous people, and violence...
May 8, 2009
Liberty Victoria Updates
Brian Walters, December 2006
… the common values that bind us together as one people – respect for the freedom and dignity of the individual, a commitment to the rule of law, the equality of men and...
May 8, 2009
Liberty Victoria Updates
Brian Walters, 7 August 2006
Over 20 years ago, anthropologists in the Northern Territory accompanied local indigenous people when they went fishing. Drifting well out to sea, with the shore only...
May 8, 2009
Liberty Victoria Updates
Brian Walters, 17 August 2006
In December last year, four untrained, unfunded Christian pacifists broke into Pine Gap to engage in a “citizens’ inspection”.
Despite this being a top secret base,...
May 8, 2009
Liberty Victoria Updates
Brian Walters, 13 September 2005
Last weekend our nation crossed a line. On Saturday, a visiting tourist was arrested in Melbourne by the Australian Federal Police, on instructions from the...
May 8, 2009
Liberty Victoria Updates
Brian Walters, 31 December 2006
FOR years after David Hicks was first detained, the Bush administration argued that prisoners at Guantanamo were beyond the reach of the courts — in a legal black hole...
May 8, 2009
Liberty Victoria Updates
Brian Walters
Just when it seemed the problems in Aboriginal Australia could not get any worse they appeared to do just that. Recently some Federal politicians “discovered” child sexual abuse and...
May 8, 2009
Liberty Victoria Updates