NTWLS Advocacy Series | ‘NT anti-domestic violence group calls on media to do better’

The Northern Territory continues to have the highest rate of domestic & family homicides in the country 😡🙅‍♀️ The Tangentyere Women’s Family Safety Group have called for responsible reporting on the stories of women murdered in the Northern Territory ✊ 🔎➡️ https://ab.co/3IyKzsO ⚖️ Central Australian Women’s Legal Service (CAWLS) ⚖️ Top End Women’s Legal Service…

Why Women’s Only Services…?

📣 Over the next six weeks – and in the lead up to International Women’s Day 2022 – the Northern Territory’s three women’s legal services will share core reasons why specialist women’s legal services continue to be needed 💪 … we would take 61 days – much like the 61 additional days from the end…

Sisters in Law | 23 February 2022

🎙️ This week on ‘Sisters in Law‘, the Northern Territory Program Manager for the Senior Relationships Services at Relationships Australia, Lesley Merett, spoke with show host, Sarah Edwards about Elder Abuse. A big thank you to Lesley and CAWLS lawyer, Sarah, for an informative and insightful discussion… 💭 ☎️ If you or someone you know…

Tickets Selling Fast | ‘Identifying and Responding to Family Violence’ Training | 25 March 2022

Spaces filling fast! 😱 📖 Get in quick to secure a spot at our upcoming ‘Identifying and Responding to Family Violence’ training, to be held in March 2022. 🗣️ CAWLS and other local services providers are offering a full-day training where participants will: 📁 Strengthen understandings of family violence 📁 Gain an understanding of legal…

IWD 2022 | Equal Futures Fair

CAWLS is thrilled to be partnering with other local organisations to celebrate the strength, power & resilience of women in Central Australia, with the 2022 International Women’s Day ‘Equal Futures’ Fair ✊✨ Join us for an evening of live music, food and market stalls, interviews, a panel discussion, smoking ceremony and more. 📅 Saturday 5…

Ochre Ribbon Week 2022

🎗️ Ochre Ribbon Week is a time to raise awareness and start the hard conversations of the devastating and unacceptable impacts domestic and family violence has on our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities across Australia. 😔 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women are 32 times more likely to be hospitalised as a result of…

Sisters in Law | 9 February 2022

🤔🏘️ What can separated/divorced couples expect when processing their property settlement? 🤔📄 How do separated/divorced couples agree on wealth & debt splits? 🤔💸 What are some of the things recently separated people can to do to protect themselves financially? 🎙️ On this week’s episode of ‘Sisters in Law’, CAWLS lawyers, Keda & Meaghan, answer these…

Safer Internet Day 2022

📲 Safer Internet Day is a global campaign dedicated to creating a safer online world for everyone. Don’t be fooled… Technology-facilitated abuse is a form of domestic violence 🙅 Abusers can control, stalk and harass their victims using technology, with behaviours such as 👇 ❌ Sending abusive text messages or emails ❌ Making continuous threatening…

‘Sisters in Law’ back for 2022

‘Sisters in Law’ is back for 2022 ✊🎙️ 🗣️ Each week, our team discuss issues affecting women across Central Australia and the Barkly & how this intersects with the law and the work we do. This week, in our first show for 2022, CAWLS Senior Lawyer, Julia Parkin, spoke about recovery orders in family law…