Liberty Victoria Press Releases
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Liberty Victoria is pleased to announce that Sitarah Mohammadi and Sajjad Askary are the 2022 Liberty Victoria Young Voltaire Human Rights Award recipients. The Young Voltaire Human Rights Award... Read more
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Climate change has wrought devastating consequences in Australia — bushfires and floods have caused significant loss of life and mass displacement; bleaching events have affected large parts of the... Read more
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Liberty Victoria is awarding the 2022 Voltaire Empty Chair Award to Mehdi Ali, a refugee from Ahvaz, Iran who had been held in detention by Australia since 2013 including at the Park Hotel in... Read more
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The Proposed Ban of the Swastika in Victoria The Summary Offences Amendment (Nazi Symbol Prohibition) Bill 2022 (Vic) Liberty Victoria is deeply worried by the emergence of far-right extremism, but... Read more
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Liberty Victoria Statement on the Federal Election As you are no doubt aware, the Federal Election will be held on 21 May 2022. Liberty Victoria does not, and will not, endorse any particular... Read more
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On Thursday 10 March 2022, Liberty Victoria’s Rights Advocacy Project (RAP) will launch its report, A Policy for Equality: Painful Periods as a Workplace Issue. The Report shines a spotlight on the... Read more
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The Morrison Government is seeking to re-introduce the Migration Amendment (Strengthening Character Test) Bill 2021 (Cth) (the Bill) — which has already been rejected by Parliament twice because it... Read more
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Liberty Victoria calls on all members of Parliament to reject the Religious Discrimination Bill 2021 (Cth) (“the Bill”) in its current form to ensure that LGBTIQ people, and in particular vulnerable... Read more
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The decision by the Hon Alex Hawke MP, the Minister for Immigration, Citizenship, Migrant Services and Multicultural Affairs, to cancel Mr Novak Djokovic’s visa and to deport him has drawn attention... Read more
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Liberty Victoria has published a detailed comment in response to the Public Health and Wellbeing Amendment (Pandemic Management) Bill 2021, available on its website. Liberty Victoria welcomes the... Read more
