MEDIA RELEASE
ANTI-ASSOCIATION LAWS NOT WELCOME IN VICTORIA
Tuesday, February 4 is the first sitting day of the Victorian Parliament for 2014.
Attorney General Robert Clark plans to push through changes to the Summary Offences
and Sentencing Bill 2013 that will unfairly limit the ability of lobby groups and
unions to assemble and protest in public.
http://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/static/www.legislation.vic.gov.au-bills.html
The Independent Riders' Group strongly opposes these kinds of laws because they are
undemocratic and un-Australian. The IRG has urged its' members make an appointment to
see their MPs and make it clear that these laws are not acceptable in a free society.
IRG Spokesman, Damien Codognotto OAM, said.
"Anti-association laws have already done enormous damage to the Australian way of life
in Queensland. We don't want them here. Many people who would travel to Queensland for
business or pleasure won't for fear of unfair arrest for talking to someone or wearing
the wrong t-shirt."
Changes to the Summary Offences and Sentencing Bill appear to be aimed at minority
groups like bikies or the tunnel protestors but they will effect the society as a whole
and are opened to massive abuse.
"Increase police numbers, enforce existing laws, but do not turn Victoria into a police
state with these dangerous changes to our laws." Codognotto said.
Robert Clark admitted his amendments would "impose a limitation on an individual's right
to move freely within Victoria ... and may, in certain circumstances, limit the rights to
freedom of expression (section15), and peaceful assembly and freedom of association
(section16)." - Source NEWMATILDA.COM.
http://www.newmatilda.com/2014/01/21/victorian-laws-threaten-protest-rights
The IRG will have observers at Parliament House in Melbourne on Tuesday, February 4, 2014.
CONTACT: Damien Codognotto OAM
Spokesman
Independent Riders' Group
Mobile 0419 846 855
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