CAWLS Outreach Program : Santa Teresa

CAWLS outreach is back on the agenda in Santa Teresa. The CAWLS team had a busy day last week: ✔️ meeting with community; ✔️ running drop-in legal advice and financial counselling sessions; and ✔️ hosting a legal education seminar for the service sector. We are looking forward to regular visits to deliver our CLE program…

Young Australian of the Year Lunch

The CAWLS Support Team were thrilled to attend the ‘Young Australian of the Year Lunch’ to hear the inspiring & commendable work of 2021 Young Australian of the Year, Isobel Marshall, and her business co-founder, Eloise Hall. At just 18 years of age, Isobel & Eloise had created ‘TABOO’ – a social enterprise venture to…

2021 Financial Counselling Australia Conference

Last week, Darwin played host to the 2021 ‘Financial Counselling Australia Conference’ – a 2 day conference covering a wide variety of financial hot topics. CAWLS Financial Counsellor, Tania, represented our service and interacted with a number of sessions through the week 🤝 🗣️ Attendees heard from Financial Counsellors who had been deployed to different…

Senator the Hon Anne Ruston visits CAWLS

The Central Australian Women’s Legal Service (CAWLS) and the Katherine Women’s Legal Service (KWILS) were delighted to host Senator Anne Ruston, Minister for Women’s Safety, at CAWLS’ Alice Springs office this week. 🗣️ Our team briefed the Minister on the particular challenges facing women and children in Central Australia, the Barkly and Katherine Big Rivers…

Ti Tree Outreach Visit, May 2021

Yesterday, Jordan, Cara & Denelle headed out to Ti Tree 🚗💨 The team attended the local Ti Tree court to help with domestic violence matters on a duty basis and met up with the local police officers to talk about Domestic and Family Violence 🚨 CAWLS later cooked a barbeque for the lovely local Ti…

Law Week 2021 : Ada Evans

⚖️ Law Week is celebrated around the country from 17 – 23 May and is an important time to learn about the people who work to resolve legal queries, learn how & when the law can affect your life and stimulate discussion to help find answers to your legal questions. To celebrate Law Week 2021,…