CAWLS DFV Training & Visit to Ti Tree | July 2022

📍 This week, CAWLS staff Machiko, Jazz & student intern Naya, visited Ti Tree – a remote indigenous community, 194 km north of Alice Springs 🚙💨 🗣️ Presenting a training session alongside the Women’s Safety Services of Central Australia outreach team, our staff discussed how community staff can 👇 ▶️ identify family violence ▶️ legal…

Sisters in Law | 13 July 2022

ℹ️ Today on ‘Sisters in Law’, CAWLS Migration Lawyer, Meaghan, joined hosts Jazz and Naya, in the studio to discuss immigration law and the ‘CAWLS Migration Hub’. 🌏⚖️ The CAWLS Migration Hub is a service available for ANY woman in the Northern Territory, experiencing disadvantage, to receive timely and confidential migration advice (with priority given…

Winter Donation Call Out

❄️ To say it has been cold lately, would be an understatement… now, think of those who have nothing to wrap around their shoulders, or children who don’t have a pair of warm socks to put on their feet… 😓 Heartbreakingly, this is the reality of many women and their children in our community… 💔…

NAIDOC March in Mparntwe

Today, our CAWLS Mparntwe (Alice Springs) Office started the morning as part of the NAIDOC Week March down Todd Street 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Despite the extremely cold temperatures this week, it was inspiring to see so many friendly faces and organisations turn up in support of NAIDOC week ✊ The March was led by North Australian Aboriginal…

Sisters in Law | 6 July 2022

ℹ️ This week on ‘Sisters in Law’, CAWLS invited Annie Taylor from NT Shelter and Frances Paterson-Fleider from ‘Community Housing Central Australia’, to discuss the issue of housing & homelessness across the Territory – and in particular, Central Australia and the Barkly 🏠 ❄️ Temperatures are dipping right down to freezing levels across the desert,…

NAIDOC March in Tennant Creek

Our CAWLS Barkly team kicked off NAIDOC week on Monday with a march down the main street of Tennant Creek ✊ It was encouraging and powerful to see such a large crowd of community members and organisations attend in support 🙌 CAWLS stands in solidarity with all First Nation people of Australia. We look forward…

Pursuing Gender Equity in 2022

📢 Join the Central Australian Women’s Legal Service and the Chamber of Commerce Northern Territory in conversation with Champion of Change, Justice Chris Maxwell, and a panel of diverse, inspiring & engaging Australians about what gender equity + gender equality means, looks like and how we get there ✊ The panel will feature discussions &…