The Health Legislation Amendment (Information Sharing) Bill 2023 (Vic) (the Bill) should not be enacted in its current form.
The Bill, which would create a centralised database for the medical...
February 22, 2023
Press Release
Liberty Victoria’s Sam Norton said the justice system was responsible for delivering justice, not the police.
“Our criminal justice system delivers, our police are not there to augment it with their...
February 10, 2023
Liberty Victoria in the News
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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 Award has been...
February 9, 2023
Press Release
Michael Stanton President of Liberty Victoria was a guest on the Law Report
A Victorian coroner has described the treatment of an Indigenous woman in prison as inhumane and her death preventable....
February 7, 2023
Liberty Victoria in the News
In light of the damning findings of the Coroner in relation to the tragic death of Ms Veronica Nelson, now is the time to fix Victoria’s broken bail laws. The Coroner has found, in the clearest terms...
January 30, 2023
Press Release
Despite a range of bodies calling for change, including a parliamentary inquiry, the Law Institute of Victoria, the Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service and Liberty Victoria, the police union has ...
January 28, 2023
Liberty Victoria in the News
Legal groups have urged the Victorian government not to delay reforming the state's tough bail laws, in anticipation of the findings of a major coronial inquest being handed down next week.
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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
In a submission to the Yoorrook Justice Commission, human rights organisation Liberty Victoria noted that in 2020, the rate for Aboriginal adults in custody was about 1837 per 100,000 Victorian...
January 24, 2023
Liberty Victoria in the News
Liberty Victoria's Sam Norton said the state got the balance wrong on bail laws after Bourke Street, allowing for repeat offenders to be held on remand for low-level crimes such as shoplifting under...
January 24, 2023
Liberty Victoria in the News