📍 Last week, our Tennant Creek lawyers headed out to Ali Curung for bush court 👩⚖️ ⚖️ Anisha & Mollie provided a duty lawyer service at the court and helped the women of Ali Curung with their DV matters 🙏 Our dynamic Barkly duo also picked up a few new clients from the community, who…
On Wednesday 4 May 2022, people across Australia will light a candle to remember those who have been killed by domestic & family violence 🙏 By joining this evening of reflection & remembrance, we honour their memories and help bring light to our national crisis…💜 You can participate in three ways 👇 🕯️ Watch the…
🥶 Centralian nights can get unbearably cold… now, imagine, you have nothing to wrap around your shoulders, or your baby doesn’t have a blanket to drape around them… ❄️ Sadly, this is the reality of many women in our community… 😓📣 Our CAWLS team are calling on anyone with the capacity to provide some warmth…
Earlier this month, CAWLS was delighted to host an afternoon tea at our Tennant Creek office to introduce local service providers to our ‘Migration Hub’ 🌏⚖️ 🤔 Did you know… CAWLS offers FREE + confidential migration advice to ALL women in Central Australia and the Barkly Region 🙌 We can assist women with migration advice,…
CAWLS Community Training for 2022 is underway, with our first ‘Identifying and Responding to Family Violence’ session, delivered late last month 💪📖 👏 Our team would like to extend a massive thanks to the following organisations, who contributed to an informed and insightful training 👇 💬 Tangentyere Women’s Family Safety Group 💬 Women’s Safety Services…
⚠️ Trigger Warning : Abuse ⚠️ A sadistic domestic abuser, whose vile history of ‘extreme’ abuse against his teenage partner, left her ‘covered in blood’, has been handed a two decade domestic violence order…📰 Read the full story from The NT News here ➡️ https://bit.ly/ntnews_twodecadeDVO ☎️ For legal assistance & support with domestic and family…
🥚 Don’t be walking on eggshells this Easter … domestic violence & abuse is NEVER okay ❌ CAWLS will be closed for the Easter Long Weekend.⚠️ Should you have an emergency, contact NT Police, Fire and Emergency Services – Alice Springs and Southern on 131 444 or the Women’s Safety Services of Central Australia on…
SEXUAL ASSAULT AWARENESS MONTH 🎗️ 📅 April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month and this year, the theme is “Building Safe Online Spaces Together” 🤝 🖥️In the work we do at CAWLS, we sadly help a lot of women who have been abused and who have had their privacy violated online 😞🖱️ Online sexual abuse is…
📣 Over the last six weeks, we have been sharing core reasons WHY specialist women’s legal services continue to be needed across the Northern Territory & Australia ♀️⚖️ Need a reminder? Here’s just a few 👇 Because… 🤔 💭 … violence against women & their children costs Australia $22 billion annually 💭 … the rate…
📈 Figures released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics show, women living with a disability are almost twice as likely to experience partner violence 😡 Although three in four women with a disability experienced anxiety or fear following their most recent incident of physical assault by a man, fewer than one in three reported it…
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