Earlier this year, the Financial Counselling Foundation announced funding of 10 full-time specialist DFV financial counsellor positions for three years around Australia, of which the Central Australian Women’s Legal Service (CAWLS) was one of the successful recipients. “CAWLS is very fortunate to receive funding for a financial counsellor” said CAWLS Managing Principal Solicitor, Janet Taylor.…
Advocates are warning that people hit with job losses and reduced work hours are moving into their elderly relatives’ homes and promising to care for them … but instead, are racking up bills in the older person’s name or pressuring them to guarantee loans 😞 Read the full story by The Age here ➡ https://bit.ly/30fPKcW 🗣️ If you need…
NT Youth Week 2020 kicks off TODAY and to celebrate, we have a HUGE Prize Giveaway up for grabs! HEALTHY RELATIONSHIPS When it comes to a relationship with someone you love and trust – what does a healthy relationship mean and look like to you? How to Enter? Tell us what a healthy relationship means…
CAWLS were thrilled to partner with ICTV last weekend to sponsor the live stream of the ‘AFL Central Australia Women’s Grand Final’ 🏉 The ability to showcase these incredible local athletes to audiences online is phenomenal & certainly the way of the future! 🤩 👏 Congratulations to the E-Girls and Rovers for putting…
Specialist women’s legal services across the country have come together to call for an additional $25.5 million funding boost, including 123 more lawyers to cope with the ongoing national family and domestic violence crisis. Read the full report by the Sydney Morning Herald here ➡ https://bit.ly/32RNomo
CAWLS Tennant Creek Lawyer, Anisha Hegde, recently wrote a piece for the Australian Human Rights Institute’s online newsletter ‘On Guard’ – a publication monitoring human rights in the COVID-19 Pandemic 🌏 🗣️ “For now, what Tennant Creek may lack in resources, we make up for in community. One of the town’s greatest strengths has…
Central Australian Women’s Legal Service Inc. recently visited women at the ‘Life Skills Camp’ to discuss legal issues women face coming out of prison and how we could help 🗣️ The program was set up to ensure women had access to support services whilst transitioning out of prison. With CAWLS, it is not always…
Each year, Share the Dignity collects thousands of sanitary products for women in need across the country. Share the Dignity have continually supported CAWLS with supplies for women in Central Australia… & once again have delivered an incredible package which will help many vulnerable women. THANK YOU to Loren and the entire Share the Dignity team for…
Radio Alert 🎙️⚠️ Tune into ABC Alice Springs from 4:45pm today to listen to Central Australian Women’s Legal Service Inc. CLE & Policy Solictior, Julianna Marshall, discuss the life and legacy of the incredible Ruth Bader Ginsburg (aka The Notorious RBG) 🤍 Stream Online via ➡️ www.abc.net.au/radio/alicesprings or, Listen Back Online via ➡️ www.abc.net.au/radio/alicesprings/programs/drive/episodes
We are deeply saddened to hear of the passing of US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (aka The Notorious RBG) 🤍 A legal giant and passionate advocate for gender equality, she changed the legal landscape in the United States and the rest of the world 🌏⚖️ Justice Ginsburg had once said that…
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