The pandemic has forced ‘safe, comfortable’ Australians to confront human rights. So what’s next?

Liberty Victoria’s outgoing president Julia Kretzenbacher says their organisation has also been busy.

“For the past two years there’s particular things we focused on, including the curfew, privacy around QR codes, policing as a public health response and now the pandemic bill.”

Both de Kretser and Kretzenbacher frame human rights as a balance – that is individual rights must be balanced against the rights of people to be safe from the virus.