Human rights group Liberty Victoria applauds the Andrews government for taking a strong and principled stance on the right to die with dignity. 

However, while welcoming that announcement, Liberty is dismayed at a recent flurry of announcements on justice reforms, which are reactionary, ill-considered and prone to gross abuse. 

The government’s latest step to remove from judicial oversight the police force’s potential to abuse the taking of DNA samples is condemned.

Andrews Government should let Parole
Board do its job, says Liberty Victoria

Public safety and the State budget will suffer as a result of harsh new measures by the Andrews Government, Liberty Victoria warned today.

Community lawyer and lecturer Jessie Taylor has been elected president of one of Australia's leading human rights organisations,
Liberty Victoria.

Ms Taylor BA(Hons) LLB(Hons) MSc(HA) is a lecturer in the Faculty of Law at Monash University and on the Board of the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre.

Teenagers don't belong in an adult jail, even when things get hard. Placing them with adult prisoners is exposing them to dangerous influences and the risk of abuse.

Rights group flays

Refugee life ban

The human rights group Liberty Victoria has condemned the Federal Government's decision to ban any asylum seeker who has attempted to reach Australia.

Liberty president George Georgiou SC said, "This is is total overreach. It  ignores the fact that the government's offshore detention policy is failing and in disarray.