Dear members and supporters,
The Liberty Victoria Voltaire Human Rights Awards is an important event in the Australian human rights calendar. For more than two decades, the Voltaire Human Rights...
February 22, 2024
Liberty Victoria Updates
Liberty Victoria respectfully advocates for the implementation of pill testing facilities at festivals, as a crucial measure to protect the human rights of festival attendees. We understand that the...
January 11, 2024
Press Release
Dear Prime Minister,
We write as Presidents of Australia’s leading, membership based human rights and civil society organisations, about the unfolding humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza. We are non-...
November 16, 2023
Submission
Liberty Victoria understands that there are moves by the Opposition to introduce anti-protest laws to the Victorian Parliament. The proposed law would give police the power to break up protests and...
November 16, 2023
Press Release
On 20 September 2023, the Victorian Government released its Housing Statement – a major package of government investment and reforms in housing. Part of the plan is to demolish significant public...
November 15, 2023
Liberty Victoria in the News
Protests, sit-ins, graffiti, and posters are all part of a vigorous public debate in Melbourne about the Israel-Gaza war.
Liberty Victoria president Michael Stanton joined Raf Epstein to discuss the...
November 14, 2023
Liberty Victoria in the News
It was a momentary movement, done casually and with a laugh, but caught on camera by a media scrum. Following a combative back-and-forth with journalists after being sentenced for assault, Jacob...
November 12, 2023
Liberty Victoria in the News
Liberty Victoria is awarding the 2023 Voltaire Empty Chair Award to Mr Victor Yeimo, a strong advocate for West Papua’s independence from Indonesia and an international spokesperson for the National...
November 8, 2023
Press Release
We’re pleased to announce that Nick McKenzie, award-winning investigative journalist and author of “Crossing the Line:
The explosive inside story behind the Ben Roberts-Smith headlines” will be...
November 1, 2023
Press Release