Guests: Dr Jacqueline McGowan-Jones – WA Commissioner for Children and Young People RE: 2026 Profile of Children and Young People in WA. Sophie Stewart, CEO – Social Reinvestment WA RE: Giving Evidence alongside ALSWA at the National Inquiry into Australia’s Youth Justice and Incarceration System. Lucy Schroeder, Solicitor, National Justice Project RE: A...
Guests: Chloe Wood, ALSWA Civil/Human Rights Unit Manager – Hakea Prison Update RE Lockdowns and conditions; Nina Storey, Member of the Formerly Incarcerated Girls Justice Advocates Melbourne (FIGJAM) and Family Violence Justice Project Manager at Flat Out and Sohini Mehta, Senior Lawyer at the Human Rights Law Centre, talk about the...
Guests: Hayley O’Hara ALSWA Community Legal Education Officer speaking from Karratha, Kaylene Oakley Aboriginal Liaison Mentor with Ashburton Aboriginal Corporation in Karratha and Seb O’Meara Gordon Legal partner, talking about the Robodebt Class Action. If you were affected by Robodebt and want to be part of this Class Action, registration...
This is the first program for 2026 with guests: Professor Pat Dudgeon from UWA and Sophie Stewart from Social Reinvestment WA. Download ...
This the final Law Matters program for 2025 and Jodi Hoffmann is joined in the studio by ALSWA CEO Wayne Nannup and Director Legal Services Peter Collins, for a look back at some of the highs and lows of the year. *This program talks about some sensitive issues including deaths in...
Guests: Dr. Jim Morrison from Yokai Healing our Spirit talks about the WA Stolen Generations Redress Scheme which officially opened this week. More information here: https://www.wa.gov.au/...
Guests: WA Governor the Honourable Chris Dawson. The Governor attended Pinjarra on 28th October, to apologise for the Pinjarra Massacre in 1834, which was led by WA’s first Governor, James Stirling Allira Toby, John Moriarty Foundation Ambassador, talks about the importance of the Foundations football program for young people. Sasha Greenoff, ALSWA Youth...
Guests: Angela Crombie, ALSWA Senior Policy Officer, Governance talks about the new firearm laws in WA. Find out more here: Firearms: Current information sheets Lucy Peel, ALSWA Kununurra lawyer, talks about the remote community of Balgo, which has been without in-person court hearings for almost two years, resulting in a lack of...
Guests: Peter Collins, Aboriginal Legal Service of WA Ltd Director Legal Services, discusses systemic racism, the over-policing of First Nations Peoples and the tragic death in custody and upcoming inquest of a 31 year old Noongar Wongai Adnyamathanha man. Australian Human Rights Commission Race Discrimination Commissioner Giridharan Sivaraman shares his views...
Guests: Guests: Aboriginal Legal Service of WA Ltd CEO Wayne Nannup talks about the ‘Old Ways New Ways’ program and we find out more about the Office of the Inspector of Custodial Services from OICS Inspector Eamon Ryan. Download ...