Submitted by Liberty Victoria on Thu, 23/04/2020 - 12:55
Last week the Victorian Government promised that changes to rental laws would allow renters affected by COVID-19 to more easily move out of their rental properties.
Submitted by Liberty Victoria on Sun, 19/04/2020 - 12:35
The emergence of the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) has changed all our lives in ways we could never have imagined. Through swift and decisive action on physical distancing and movement restriction, the Federal and Victorian governments seem to have steered us away from the catastrophic situations currently playing out elsewhere in the world. We are very thankful that we seem to have avoided the worst.
But we cannot become complacent. We cannot afford to allow our freedom and privacy to be curtailed by government to such an extent that we will not be able to claw it back.
Submitted by Liberty Victoria on Mon, 30/03/2020 - 10:47
Liberty Victoria supports and applaud the efforts of government and medical experts at all levels working to take urgent action to save lives and protect our community. We acknowledge that extraordinary steps are required to meet an extraordinary crisis. We will continue our role in protecting and defending human rights and civil liberties by monitoring the introduction and enforcement of measures during this time.
Submitted by Liberty Victoria on Sun, 29/03/2020 - 13:09
Liberty Victoria joins the 119 Criminal and Legal Practitioners to call for humane decarceration during the COVID-19 pandemic. You cannot social distance in a cramped prison.
Humane decarceration during the COVID-19 Pandemic
In order to preserve human rights and further protect public health we the undersigned are calling on the Victorian Government to release the following class of prisoners:
1. Elderly or immunosuppressed prisoners;
2. Prisoners serving sentence for non-violent offending;
Submitted by Liberty Victoria on Tue, 24/03/2020 - 15:24
In light of the developing COVID-19 pandemic, Liberty Victoria supports calls from more than 370 lawyers, academics and advocates to reduce the risk of transmission of COVID-19 in the Australian criminal justice system, especially prisons -and youth detention centres (see
Submitted by Liberty Victoria on Tue, 24/03/2020 - 09:25
In light of the developing COVID-19 pandemic, Liberty Victoria supports calls from more than 370 lawyers, academics and advocates to reduce the risk of transmission of COVID-19 in the Australian criminal justice system, especially prisons and youth detention centres (see
This Human Rights and Technology Discussion Paper submission is made jointly by the Australian Privacy Foundation, the Queensland Council for Civil Liberties, Liberty Victoria, Electronic Frontiers Australia and the New South Wales Council for Civil Liberties.
With the context of the Previous Submissions and at the outset, we consider that the following recommendations were not addressed in the Discussion Paper and remain relevant to the project:
Submitted by Liberty Victoria on Tue, 03/03/2020 - 11:16
"There is a genuine risk of innocent people being convicted of crimes they have not committed."
Liberty Victoria strongly opposes the Victorian Government’s recently announced reforms to the law of tendency and coincidence evidence, which it has announced will be based on a Bill before the New South Wales Parliament - the Evidence Amendment (Tendency and Coincidence) Bill 2020 (NSW).
Those reforms, if enacted, would amongst other things: