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…
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,…
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…
📢 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 &…
Our services at the Central Australian Women’s Legal Service are available to all persons who identify as women, non-binary and gender diverse, who have been adversely impacted by patriarchal structures and practices ✊⚖️ ☎️ Call our free call hotline on 1800 684 055 to make your free & confidential appointment with our team.
🗣️ “The decision whether or not to bear a child is central to a women’s life, to her well-being and dignity. It is a decision she must make for herself. When Government controls that decision for her, she is being treated as less than a fully adult human responsible for her own choices” – Ruth…
What a wonderful way to start NAIDOC Week, seeing local leader, David Woodroffe, appointed as our next Northern Territory Acting Judge for the Local Court 👏👨⚖️ David Woodroffe is descended from the Jingili Modburra clan group and commenced studying a Bachelor of Laws in 1994 at the Northern Territory University 🗣️ David tells the story…
The decision to wind back abortion rights in the US is “a setback for women and their right to control their own bodies and their lives” Prime Minister Albanese has said 😔 ⚖️ The US Supreme Court last week overturned a previous ruling that guaranteed a constitutional right to abortion, that had been in place…
📢 An exciting opportunity exists within the Central Australian Women’s Legal Service to join our non-legal support team. CAWLS is recruiting for a multi-skilled person to provide administrative support within our office, assist with data collection, provide non-legal assistance to clients & work collaboratively with the CAWLS team 🙋♀️ As the Administration Support Worker, you…
⚠️ Women in the bush are trapped in an epidemic of extreme violence, brought about by inter-generational abuse and disadvantage and a culture that protects perpetrators before victims, according to NT Supreme Court judge, Judith Kelly. “These are not self-destructive women. These are women who can’t escape from a terrible situation. These are not people…
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