New mandatory sentencing laws will not make our communities safer, the human rights group Liberty Victoria warned today. The comments were made in response to Wednesday’s announcement that the...
April 12, 2018
Press Release
In its submission to government on the bill, Liberty Victoria president Jessie Taylor said the organisation supports the concept of streamlining child information sharing, but the legislation...
April 10, 2018
Liberty Victoria in the News
Joint Councils of Civil Liberties submission on the Identity-matching Services Bill 2018 and the Australian Passports Amendment (Identity-matching Services) Bill 2018 which will authorise the...
March 21, 2018
Submission
Neil Mitchell has clashed with the president of Liberty Victoria after it handed Yassmin Abdel-Magied the Young Voltaire award – given to somebody who has “done the most for the right of free speech...
March 20, 2018
Liberty Victoria in the News
One of Australia’s most popular actors and a prominent activist are among those awarded this year’s major free speech awards, announced today.
A further award went to a journalist asylum seeker who...
March 19, 2018
Press Release
Outspoken activist Yassmin Abdel-Magied, who spectacularly claimed to be the “most hated” Muslim in the country before moving to London last year, has won a prestigious prize for free speech.
Human...
March 19, 2018
Liberty Victoria in the News
CONTROVERSIAL activist Yassmin Abdel-Magied, who infuriated Australians with her infamous Anzac Day tweet last year, has won a coveted free speech award.
March 19, 2018
Liberty Victoria in the News
Liberty Victoria is proud to present the Voltaire Award Dinner 2019, a celebration of free speech and of Liberty Victoria's continued work to defend and extend civil liberties and human rights...
March 14, 2018
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Voltaire Award Dinner 2018
Empty Chair Award Winner
Journalist Behrouz Boochani, an ethnic Kurd, fled Iran after several of his colleagues were arrested in 2013, crossing south-east Asia and then...
March 14, 2018
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Voltaire Award Winner 2019
Young Voltaire Award Winner
Liberty Victoria honours the Ngaga-Dji project ( Hear me!), a collaborative project of the Koorie Youth Council led by Anna Cerreto and Indi...
March 14, 2018
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