Legal groups, MPs and the partner of Veronica Nelson are urging the Victorian government not to squander the opportunity to overhaul the state’s bail laws following a major coronial inquest into her...
January 24, 2023
Liberty Victoria in the News
Liberty Victoria president Michael Stanton ­described the current laws as “broken”. “We are concerned that bail laws are increasingly being used as a means of preventive detention in some...
January 24, 2023
Liberty Victoria in the News
Vice president of Liberty Victoria, Michelle Bennett, said a lack of trained staff could be a “life or death” issue for prisoners, and that time in cells should be strictly limited. “For prisoners,...
January 16, 2023
Liberty Victoria in the News
We are a coalition of lawyers, trade unionists, service providers and advocacy groups with a shared commitment to addressing the effects of precarious and ‘permanently temporary’ visa status. We...
January 10, 2023
Submission
It is a sad indictment upon Executive government, that a costly charade is exactly what the AAT had become. The level of Executive interference with the constitution and operation of the tribunal had...
December 27, 2022
Liberty Victoria in the News
Liberty Victoria said it was vital the minimum age of criminal responsibility was raised to 14 in Victoria. "This is not a matter that should result in compromise. Children don't belong in prisons,"...
December 22, 2022
Liberty Victoria in the News
This submission responds to the Yoorrook Justice Commission’s Issues Paper 1: Systemic Injustice in the Criminal Justice System. The following submission focusses on: (a) The need to raise the...
December 7, 2022
Submission
On 7 November, Liberty Victoria's Rights Advocacy Project entered into a conversation with Fiona Patten MLC and Sarah Schwartz on the challenges of law reform. The video of the event is now available...
November 24, 2022
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In comments over the weekend, the president of Liberty Victoria, Michael Stanton, said there was "no need" for Ms Cumming's "inflammatory rhetoric". "The state election should be a contest of ideas...
November 23, 2022
Liberty Victoria in the News
As part of a society which values and promotes human dignity, equality and freedom, a properly functioning social security system — that is, a system which is available, adequate and accessible to...
November 15, 2022
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