Tennant Creek ‘Identifying & Responding to Coercive Control + Misidentification’ Workshop

🗣 Late last month, CAWLS Health Justice Educator Meg Wright, hosted an advanced workshop on ‘Identifying and Responding to Coercive Control and Misidentification’ in Tennant Creek 📄 We thoroughly enjoyed delivering this training to 17 people and are very grateful for everyone’s passion to learn more about this topic 💬 📂 CAWLS regularly hosts training…

2023 Chamber of Commerce Barkly Region Awards

CAWLS were honoured to be nominated at the recent Northern Territory Chamber of Commerce (Barkly Region) Awards evening in Tennant Creek 🏆 CAWLS Lawyer, Mollie Middleton, accepted the ‘Runner Up’ award on behalf of our Tennant Creek office in the ‘Outstanding Customer Service – Not-for-Profit’ category 🏅 👏 Our congratulations extend to the ‘Deadly Hair…

Seniors Expo 2023

📅 CAWLS was pleased to once again be involved in the annual ‘Seniors Expo’ in Central Australia, hosted by COTA NT. With 55+ other exhibitors, this event is truly an important community connecting time for everyone to learn about the many services available for our seniors throughout Central Australia 👥 Congratulations to the organisers &…

DV inquest begins

⚠️ Content Warning: Domestic Violence & Homicide ⚠️ ⚖️ On Monday, the NT Coroner started another inquest into the killing of a woman in the Territory. The NT News reported that the inquest heard that the “young woman was condemned to a life of “ongoing torture” by the man she loved and the systems meant…

Good Luck Matildas

The team at CAWLS are all behind the mighty CommBank Matildas, as they continue their excellent winning run in the Women’s World Cup 💪⚽️ 🐊 We were pleased to hear that ‘Speckles the Croc’ – who has reputed oracle abilities, according to the NT News – has foretold of a win for the Matildas ……

DV coronial to explore ‘inevitable’ risks

📰 Further to previous posts regarding coronial inquests being held with respect to the deaths of women in circumstances of domestic violence, the Northern Territory Coroner, Elisabeth Armitage, is this week expected to open another inquest into the death of another woman in the Territory. ⚖️ In this tragic case, the woman was stabbed to…

Women’s World Cup’23

⚽️ The team at CAWLS are absolutely loving seeing women’s sport being celebrated through the FIFA Women’s World Cup, here in Australia and NZ 👏 👀 Last weekend, Barkly lawyers, past & present – from CAWLS and other services – headed to Melbourne, to watch some of these incredible sportspeople in action 💪 Did you…