📯 The Central Australian Women’s Legal Service and NT Working Women’s Centre are excited to be launching our new ‘Equality and Respect in the Workplace’ program 📚⚖️ To mark the event, we are holding a working women’s employment law evening event at CAWLS ✊ We invite Alice Springs business owners, NGO & Not for Profit…
Q: What is workplace sexual harassment? 🤔 A: Workplace sexual harassment is any unwelcome sexual behaviour that occurs at work 🙅 ⚠️ Just one incident of this unwelcome sexual behaviour is enough to constitute sexual harassment. There are legal and non-legal options available for Northern Territory employees if they have experienced sexual harassment ⚖️ CAWLS…
📣 We would like to give a special mention to the gifted and wonderful Fiona Gordon-Morrison, who received her ‘Diploma of Ki Yoga’ from the school of Ryoho, earlier this month (and is now one of just eight students worldwide to graduate this year!) 😲 Fiona has been working with the team at CAWLS for…
💬 Today is ‘Safer Internet Day’ – a global initiative, raising awareness of a safer and better internet for all … especially for children & young people 👀 We encourage you to take three simple actions when approaching online safety … Connect. Reflect. Protect 📱 ⛔️ CONNECT safely by keeping apps and devices secure and…
📍 Last week, our CAWLS Barkly team visited Ali Curung, for their monthly outreach visit 🚙💨 👥 The team attended bush court and reconnected with local service providers to get the word out about what kind of assistance we can offer to women across the Barkly – including those living in our more remote communities.…
Join us for essential training for all frontline workers in Central Australia, with a focus on managing disclosures of domestic, family sexual violence 📖 🗣️ Our full day course, presented by the Central Australian Women’s Legal Service, covers foundational information, in addition to the development of practical skills to respond to clients and patients at…
ℹ️ In an interesting case from New South Wales, as reported recently in The Australian, an Aboriginal mother was successful in appealing a decision of the Court, regarding her children. ⚖️ The decision under appeal, related to a Court granting a couple from Britain responsibility in relation to the mother’s two children who had been…
📢 ‘Connecting the Dots: Advocacy…Empowerment…Change’ was the theme for the 2023 South Australian Financial Counsellors Association Conference, where CAWLS Financial Counsellor, Tania Robinson, represented our organisation. 💡 The conference took on the theme of ‘connecting the dots’ because the pathway through advocacy for clients, empowering clients and creating long lasting change is often not linear……
📖👥 The ‘STOP Domestic Violence Conference’ ran over 3 days in November 2023, involving more than 400 professionals from across Australia and New Zealand 🛑✋ With such a broad range of interesting breakout sessions, our CAWLS delegates had a tough time choosing which sessions to attend 💡 🗣️ Key highlights included hearing from our NT…
👏 The Central Australian Women’s Legal Service congratulates Ms Shahleena Musk, a Larrakia woman, for being appointed as the new Northern Territory Children’s Commissioner. Ms Musk has worked as a human rights & youth advocate, criminal lawyer and prosecutor and has extensive experience in policy development, project delivery, law reform and strategic research 📖 ⚖️…
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