Archive for 2014

An appeal decision has been handed down in the Victorian Supreme Court which could set back Victoria Police efforts…

Professor Philip Alston delivered a scathing indictment of Australia’s recent legislative response to perceived security issues. Titled “Could Australia…

A feature article in the most recent Law Institute Journal, In Search of Certainty, examines the issues surrounding…

Two young men from Flemington, Daniel Haile Michael and Maki Issa have been shortlisted for the Australian Human Rights…

A Federal Senator has made a strong call for an independent body to investigate and prosecute cases of misconduct...

Corrinna Horvath has recieved a welcome and a significant compensation from the State of Victoria along with an…

A death we need to learn from Findings from the long running inquest into the death of a young...

When it comes to police violence and misconduct Victoria’s laws protect police, not its citizens. The new Victoria…

After decades of public controversy, the British Government has launched a new scheme to monitor and hold police stop...

Thirteen Victorian and Australian legal, human rights and civil society organisations have today called for a substantive response by…

The death in custody of Mulrunji Doomadgee on Palm Island on November 19, 2004 and the protests that followed, ...

We continue to monitor and engage with the roll out of the commitments made by Victoria Police in the…

The Australian Lawyers Alliance’s highly regarded Victorian Civil Justice Award 2014 has been awarded to the Flemington and Kensington Community...

A powerful condemnation of the failure of Victoria’s laws to provide adequate remedies to victims of police violence has…

In a damning decision, the United Nations Human Rights Committee has found that remedying police violence requires Victoria to…

Exciting moves are afoot to form a community-based ‘Racial Profiling Monitoring Project’ to monitor the outcomes of the Vicpol…

In a recent article in the Melbourne Age, ‘African youth in New Year’s brawl’ Salvation Army Major Brendan Nottle…

Police killings are big news, but the investigations that follow have unearthed a culture of violence without accountability. The…