Liberty Victoria is opposed to the proposed new offence of engaging in grossly offensive conduct in public. It should not become law.
The Bill seeks to respond to particular conduct by Mr Richard...
August 2, 2022
Submission
Jaimie Gardiner is also a leader of the Australian LGBTQ community; in 2019 he was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia. As early as 1974 he was leading a campaign to decriminalize gay sex,...
July 25, 2022
Liberty Victoria in the News
Liberty's president discusses mandatory minimum sentencing in depth from 1.02 on 3CRs Thursday Breakfast program.
July 22, 2022
Liberty Victoria in the News
Liberty Victoria president Michael Stanton said he “strongly” supported the Court of Appeal’s observations, with his organisation opposing the emergence of mandatory sentencing over the past decade....
July 14, 2022
Liberty Victoria in the News
Jason Roberts will face an uncertain legal path to a major compensation payout for his more than 20 years’ imprisonment because Victoria’s human rights provisions do not carry the same powers that...
July 12, 2022
Liberty Victoria in the News
The unconscionable prosecution of Bernard Collaery was an assault on the values Australia holds dear
Last week Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus put an end to Canberra lawyer Bernard Collaery’s criminal prosecution.
July 12, 2022
Liberty Victoria in the News
Michael Stanton of Liberty Victoria argued at the parliamentary inquiry “that any reform needed to ensure free speech was balanced with people’s right to live without discrimination and violence”....
June 29, 2022
Liberty Victoria in the News
The Hon Mark Dreyfus QC MP
Attorney-General of Australia
By email: attorney@ag.gov.au
8 June 2022
Dear Attorney-General,
Congratulations on Behalf of the Civil Liberties Community in Australia
We...
June 16, 2022
Submission
Australian authorities have had a “myopic” focus on Islamist extremism since 9/11, experts have lamented, warning that it has come at the expense of identifying the rise of far-right extremism....
June 16, 2022
Liberty Victoria in the News
A "myopic" focus on Islamist extremism in Australia since 2001's September 11 attacks in the United States has come at the expense of monitoring the far-right movement, a Victorian parliamentary...
June 16, 2022
Liberty Victoria in the News