Daily Archives: September 23, 2020

‘Incredible pressure’: Thousands of women turned away from domestic violence legal services

Specialist women’s legal services across the country have come together to call for an additional $25.5 million funding boost, including 123 more lawyers to cope with the ongoing national family and domestic violence crisis. Read the full report by the Sydney Morning Herald here ➡ https://bit.ly/32RNomo

COVID & Tennant Creek – ‘On Guard’, Australian Human Rights Institute Newsletter

CAWLS Tennant Creek Lawyer, Anisha Hegde, recently wrote a piece for the Australian Human Rights Institute’s online newsletter ‘On Guard’ – a publication monitoring human rights in the COVID-19 Pandemic 🌏   🗣️ “For now, what Tennant Creek may lack in resources, we make up for in community. One of the town’s greatest strengths has…