Submission to the Victorian Law Reform Commission Inquiry Into the Law Governing Termination of Pregnancy
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Liberty Victoria’s position on this issue starts from a number of core premises. One, that women have the intellectual and moral capacity to make decisions about their own fertility. Secondly, that the law governing this area should rest upon, and recognise, Australia’s obligations under international human rights instruments, specifically the UDHR, the ICCPR, the ICESCR, and the CEDAW.
(9 November 2007)
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Submission
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Public Accounts and Estimates Committee:
Strengthening Government and Accountability in Victoria
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Liberty Victoria believes that these objectives cannot be met without open,
transparent and accountable government. Liberty Victoria has campaigned
extensively in the past on issues concerning democratic processes, government
accountability, transparency in decision-making and open government.
(3 August 2007)
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Submission
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Auscheck Bill 2006
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Liberty Victoria is unable to support the above Bill. This is fundamentally because the Bill does not create such a scheme but instead delegates to regulation the making of such a scheme.
A centralised background checking scheme, however desirable in the current security climate, would carry with it the serious risk of invasions of privacy and discrimination. Strict limitations must therefore be imposed on such a scheme to prevent these detriments. Permitting such a scheme to be created by regulation, rather than legislation, tends, however, in the other direction. It tends to permit abuses of the scheme and its extensions into areas not originally envisaged by Parliament.
(24 September 2007)
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