LIBERTY VICTORIA CONDEMNS PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEE REPORT ON VICTORIAN CHARTER OF RIGHTS
Submitted by admin on Wed, 14/09/2011 - 00:00
The President of Liberty Victoria, Professor Spencer Zifcak, today condemned the Victorian Parliament’s report on the review of the Victorian Charter of Rights.
The report was prepared by the Parliament’s Scrutiny of Acts and Regulations Committee (SARC) The Committee has made a wide ranging series of recommendations almost all of which will reduce the existing legal protection of rights and freedoms in Victoria.
“The report is disappointing and derelict”, Professor Zifcak said. “It is disappointing because its recommendations stand in contradiction to the substantial majority of submissions that the Committee received”.