Liberty Victoria Press Releases
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This year Liberty Victoria honours Debbie Kilroy, the founder of Sisters Inside, with the Voltaire Human Rights Award. The Voltaire Award honours a person or group for an outstanding contribution to... Read more
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Liberty Victoria believes fervently in the importance of impartial, independent legal advice and representation. Liberty Victoria is an organisation made up predominately (though not solely) of legal... Read more
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The proposed spent convictions bill introduced by Reason Party leader Fiona Patten MP would transform the lives of many Victorians. If passed, the proposed scheme would bring Victoria in line with... Read more
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A leading human rights group today joined a chorus of condemnation of new State Government laws that sharply cut the amount of time people may spend together. Under the laws children as young as 14... Read more
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New mandatory sentencing laws will not make our communities safer, the human rights group Liberty Victoria warned today. The comments were made in response to Wednesday’s announcement that the... Read more
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One of Australia’s most popular actors and a prominent activist are among those awarded this year’s major free speech awards, announced today. A further award went to a journalist asylum seeker who... Read more
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New laws aimed at improving child safety need better provisions, the human rights group Liberty Victoria warned today. The laws set up a regime to allow a range of professionals to share information... Read more
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Prominent human rights organisation Liberty Victoria has thrown out a challenge to an inquiry set up by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull. In the wake of the overwhelming vote in favour of marriage... Read more
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Liberty Victoria labelled the opposition’s proposed plan to allow concerned parents access to photographs and other details of sex offenders "an unnecessary and costly scheme that would have no... Read more
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The breathtaking simplicity and callousness of the recently resuscitated Deputy Prime Minister lays bare the attempt to use human lives for votes, Liberty Victoria said today. “Barnaby Joyce bounces... Read more