Mary Rose Liverani was a Scottish-born Australian journalist and writer.^[1]

Liverani was born in Scotland and moved with her family to Wollongong, New South Wales when she was 13.^[2]

'Liverani's autobiography, The Winter Sparrows : Growing Up in Scotland and Australia (1975),^[3] recounts a childhood spent in the slums of Glasgow and her experiences during the first years after migrating to Australia. The book has been 'acclaimed as a landmark in Australia's migrant literature'.^[4]

Liverani's book Sicily, A Captive Land was published in 2014.

'Part political critique, part travelogue, "Sicily: A Captive Land" by journalist and author Mary Rose Liverani will evoke compassion for ordinary Sicilians and outrage at the havoc long wreaked in their lives.'^[5]

In Liverani’s interview published in the Glasgow Times on 3 November 2014 Liverani explains that she was looking for ‘a group of 10 Sicilians, mainly women’ to file a claim in the European Court of Human Rights that the Italian state had breached the European Convention on Human Rights for a citizen to live in a prosperous economy and to be provided with an adequate education.^[6]

On 22 March 2015 Liverani posted on Facebook seeking funds for her court action via the crowdfunding website chuffed.org '...only 90 days to raise 50,000 pounds to fund a court action by Sicilian citizens against the state of Italy for breaching major articles of the European Human Rights Convention.^[7]

'Mary Rose Liverani went to Sicily wanting to find if there was more to the place than Mafia and beaches. She found a place whose stunning natural beauty sat at odds with its problems of poverty, illiteracy and unemployment. The mafia are to blame, but she also argues that they cannot exert the power they do without the country's other most powerful institution, the Catholic church.'^[8]

Liverani was also a Staff Reporter for ‘The Law Society Journal’, a quarterly journal which is owned by the Law Society of New South Wales.