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In search of certainty: Is the Vic Police Act a step forward?
Read moreA feature article in the most recent Law Institute Journal, In Search of Certainty, examines the issues surrounding the new Victoria Police Act and its implications for police accountability in Victoria.
December 8, 201414- December 4, 2014
Racial Profiling champians shortlisted for Human Rights Award
Read moreTwo young men from Flemington, Daniel Haile Michael and Maki Issa have been shortlisted for the Australian Human Rights Commission’s Young People’s Human Rights Medal for their work against racial profiling.
November 19, 2014Police investigating police is “failing our state”
Read moreA Federal Senator has made a strong call for an independent body to investigate and prosecute cases of misconduct by police in Victoria. In a speech to Federal Senate on Tuesday 30th September, Senator Gavin Marshall (Victoria—Deputy President...
October 1, 2014An apology for Corinna Horvath
Read moreCorrinna Horvath has recieved a welcome and a significant compensation from the State of Victoria along with an apology from Chief Commissioner Ken Lay.
September 22, 2014Coronial findings into death of Michael Atakelt
Read moreA death we need to learn from Findings from the long running inquest into the death of a young Ethiopian-Australian man, Michael Atakelt. who was found dead in the Maribyrnong River in 2011 were handed down on Thursday 28th...
September 1, 2014Why the Police Act needs changing
Read moreWhen it comes to police violence and misconduct Victoria’s laws protect police, not its citizens. The new Victoria Police Act 2013, which came into force in July, may already need to be amended due to a recent United…
September 1, 2014Britain acts to reign in stop and search
Read moreAfter decades of public controversy, the British Government has launched a new scheme to monitor and hold police stop and search practices to account. In a move that could be replicated by Victoria Police in Australia, all police...
August 26, 2014A new call for Police Accountability
Read moreThirteen Victorian and Australian legal, human rights and civil society organisations have today called for a substantive response by the State of Victoria to the recent findings of the United Nations Human Rights Committee on the long-running case of…
July 28, 2014Lex Wotton free to speak: four-year gag order lifted
Read moreThe death in custody of Mulrunji Doomadgee on Palm Island on November 19, 2004 and the protests that followed, are tragic and clear demonstrations of the need for police accountability. Following Doomadgee’s death, the Attorney General indicted Senior Sargent...
July 24, 2014“We will get better” Racial Profiling Update
Read moreWe continue to monitor and engage with the roll out of the commitments made by Victoria Police in the Equality is Not the Same report and we want to keep you up to date.
July 17, 2014Victorian Civil Justice Award 2014
Read moreThe Australian Lawyers Alliance’s highly regarded Victorian Civil Justice Award 2014 has been awarded to the Flemington and Kensington Community Legal Centre, in recognition of its outstanding work representing all the way to the United Nations, a young Victorian woman, Corinna...
July 7, 2014UN condemns inadequate response to police violence
Read moreA powerful condemnation of the failure of Victoria’s laws to provide adequate remedies to victims of police violence has been delivered by the United Nations Human Rights Committee (UNHRC) in the recent and long awaited decision of Horvath v…
July 3, 201418 Years Too Long
Read moreIn a damning decision, the United Nations Human Rights Committee has found that remedying police violence requires Victoria to take steps it has shirked up to this point.
April 6, 2014Grassroots racial profiling monitoring project
Read moreExciting moves are afoot to form a community-based ‘Racial Profiling Monitoring Project’ to monitor the outcomes of the Vicpol Equality Report
February 24, 2014‘Africans in New Year’s Brawl’ – Our Response
Read moreIn a recent article in the Melbourne Age, ‘African youth in New Year’s brawl’ Salvation Army Major Brendan Nottle was quoted as saying:
“Rather than take the approach that we’re not going to talk about this for fear of being…
February 16, 2014Police must not investigate their own
Read morePolice killings are big news, but the investigations that follow have unearthed a culture of violence without accountability. The solution is civilian investigators – but there are a few myths that need to be dispelled first, writes Tamar Hopkins
February 3, 2014