Liberty Victoria is profoundly concerned that some aged care providers may conflate the notion of medical incapacity with legal capacity and this denies many vulnerable residents their right to...
October 1, 2019
Submission
Liberty Victoria President, Jessie Taylor, taks to Derryn Hinch about surveillance technology
September 28, 2019
Liberty Victoria in the News
Liberty Victoria's Gemma Cafarella said facial recognition technology was a "significant erosion" of privacy that locked everyone with a driver's licence into a national database.
She said the mere...
September 17, 2019
Liberty Victoria in the News
Civil libertarians have questioned the wider use of driver’s licence photos.
“Until such time as we have a proven need that this can actually address, it’s a huge overreach,” Liberty Victoria...
September 17, 2019
Liberty Victoria in the News
More Indigenous people could be held in immigration detention and deported from Australia if a new migration law is passed, three separate lawyers’ groups, (including Liberty Victoria) have warned.
September 12, 2019
Liberty Victoria in the News
After three sell-out years, RAP’s annual trivia night is again going BIG! We’ve hired the Fitzroy Town Hall. We’re running our own bar and flanked by two food trucks – Poke Time and Curry Up Now Food...
September 10, 2019
Event Calendar
The Religious Discrimination Bill, introduced by the Attorney-General Christian Porter, has its flaws. Nevertheless, it walks a more or less acceptable line between arch proponents and critics of the...
September 6, 2019
Liberty Victoria in the News
The proposal to drug test Newstart recipients is based on a narrow and punitive assumption of the way Newstart recipients conduct their lives. It has no proven benefit.
Listen to Jessie Taylor...
September 6, 2019
Liberty Victoria in the News
The robodebt scheme is arguably a ‘retrogressive measure’ in breach of Australia’s international human rights obligations as they pertain to the right to social security. The Government’s attempts to...
August 27, 2019
Submission
Liberty Victoria recognizes the significant value of committal proceedings and the role they play in ensuring adequate disclosure, promoting the early resolution of cases before the courts,...
August 27, 2019
Submission