Did you know the Central Australian Women’s Legal Service hosts quarterly training for frontline service providers in Central Australia? 🤔 📖 We recently held our second session for the year in Alice Springs and welcomed representatives from Tangentyere Women’s Family Safety Group, NT Police, Women’s Safety Services of Central Australia and SARC to contribute to the…
📍 In early May, CAWLS attended the ‘Technology for Social Justice’ Conference in Melbourne. The conference, celebrating its 20th year, aims to empower, transform and inspire Australia’s not-for-profit leaders, by sharing new digital insights & strategies to increase organisational impact, whilst also driving positive social change ✊📡 💬 Over two-days, participants were immersed in engaging…
🦋 Today is ‘Do it for Dolly‘ Day … Dolly’s Dream was established in memory of Dolly Everett, who tragically took her own life at just fourteeen, following an extended period of bullying and cyberbullying. Today is a beautiful reminder to speak up, even if your voice shakes… especially if your voice shakes… ❤️ 🙏…
📍 CAWLS recently attended the ‘19th Associations Forum National Conference‘ in Canberra. The Associations Forum is the leading organisation for training and educating associations and charities across Australia and the Asia Pacific 🗣️ 💬 The conference hosted over 480 attendees, who had the opportunity to engage with senior executives, board members & sector experts, as they…
💬 Women’s Legal Services Australia‘s Executive Officer, Lara Freidin, says fathers take “extraordinary measures” to reduce their taxable incomes and therefore payments for their children’s upkeep 🚨 🗣️ “Non-payment, underpayment and delayed payment of child support must be nationally recognised as a form of economic abuse that has long-lasting impacts on women and children, entrenching…
🗣⚠️ “How can you extend a program though and offer money and cash to women wanting to leave violent relationships, and not give more support to those frontline services who are then going to be dealing with those people?” … Excellent question from ABC News’, Lisa Millar 👏 📢 Women’s Legal Services across the country…
⚖️ Access to Justice in the Barkly is a collective group of four legal assistance services (CAWLS, Legal Aid NT, North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency & Central Australian Aboriginal Family Legal Unit), working collaboratively to improve legal service delivery in our region. With grant support from the Northern Territory Government, we are working on an…
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