National Indigenous Youth Empowerment Summit

Last week, Sophie Quinn, one of Central Australian Women’s Legal Service Inc.’s Health Justice Partnership Lawyers, delivered a presentation at the ‘National Indigenous Youth Empowerment Summit’ in Cairns 🗣 Sophie spoke about the child protection landscape in Central Australia, including complex issues relating to the accessibility of legal services, domestic violence and mandatory reporting. Her…

8CCC | ‘Central Australian Women’s Fair’

Organisers of the Central Australian Women’s Fair would like to thank Ben and the team at 8CCC Community Radio 102.1fm – Alice Springs & Tennant Creek for their phenomenal support of our upcoming event. 8CCC will be broadcasting LIVE from the event – with two of their regular shows (‘Kitchen Radio’ & ‘Sisters in Law’) recording live from the…

‘131 444’ Line Outage (27 February 2020)

🚨 131 444 LINE OUTAGE 🚨 10:00am – The Northern Territory Police, Fire and Emergency Services have advised that their ‘Joint Emergency Services Call Centre’ is experiencing technical issues. Calls to 131444 for police, fire and emergency services are not currently being received. Technicians are working to restore phone lines. It is unknown how long this will take. 📢 Calls…

Goodbye & Good Luck, Emma-Lee

On Friday, the Central Australian Women’s Legal Service Inc. team said goodbye and good luck to Emma-Lee, as she head off on her university adventures in South Australia 🎓 The entire team would like to thank Emma-Lee for her work (…& big smiles & dance moves 🤪) during her time with CAWLS. Goodbye & Good Luck, Emma-Lee! 👋

New Staff | February 2020

February saw our legal team expand to welcome three new legal practitioners, to be based in our Alice Springs Office 🙌 👤 Chloe FragosChloe has moved to Alice Springs from South Australia, where she worked for the Women’s Legal Service (SA) as a Solicitor and built a strong interest in the delivery of Community Legal…