Liberty Victoria is deeply concerned about the gradual erosion of judicial discretion in sentencing and the move towards mandatory and/or more prescriptive models of sentencing. Part of that concern...
September 14, 2016
Submission
We are delighted to have John Silvester as our speaker at the 2016 AGM.
Whenever major crime stories break in Victoria inevitably it is John Silvester who leads the pack with exclusive news. A winner...
September 2, 2016
Event Calendar
Trivia + laughs + human rights
Join us at the City of Melbourne Bowls Club on Friday October 7 to support YLLR's work. Trivia, drink specials, finger food and a comedically-gifted MC (Michael Shafar...
September 1, 2016
Event Calendar
The Victorian Police Minister has foreshadowed laws to ban masks at protests. There have been reports that such laws may be of two kinds:
Laws making it an offence to wear masks at protests and...
August 17, 2016
Submission
The Councils for Civil Liberties (“CCLs”)[1] have made a joint submission to the Independent National Security Legislation Monitor’s (INSLM) inquiry into certain questioning and detention powers (...
August 17, 2016
Submission
August 15, 2016
Liberty Victoria in the News
August 8, 2016
Liberty Victoria in the News
Liberty Victoria has in recent days been contacted by a number of persons concerned about the 2016 Census and the privacy implications for them.
Liberty acknowledges that the collection of...
August 5, 2016
Submission
August 1, 2016
Liberty Victoria in the News
A human rights group has swung behind doctors who want the right to disclose what happens in detention centres.
Doctors for Refugees has filed a High Court challenge to the secrecy provisions in the...
July 27, 2016
Press Release