ALSWA MEDIA STATEMENT 19 September 2022 ALSWA GIVES EVIDENCE TO THE DISABILITY ROYAL COMMISSION ABOUT THE APPALLING CONDITIONS IN PRISONS On 23 September 2022 ALSWA will give evidence to the Royal Commission into the Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability about the issues ALSWA clients face. Research has shown that...
ALSWA MEDIA STATEMENT 25 August 2022 SUPREME COURT OF WA DECLARES THAT LOCKDOWNS AT BANKSIA HILL DETENTION CENTRE ARE UNLAWFUL Today, 25 August 2022, the Supreme Court of WA has declared the lockdowns imposed on children at Banksia Hill Detention Centre are unlawful. Barrister Marina Georgiou instructed by the Aboriginal Legal Service of...
Newsletter issue number 7 released Law Matters #7 April/May 2022 Newsletter...
Notice of Resignation of Auditor In accordance with s 329(5) of the Corporations Act 2001 Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu formally resigned as the auditor of the Aboriginal Legal Service of Western Australia Limited (the Company). Hall Chadwick Audit (WA) Pty Ltd has provided consent per s328A of the Corporations Act 2001 to be...
We are proud to announce that ALSWA's Law Matters radio program is the winner of the Excellence in Indigenous Broadcasting category and the joint winner of the Excellence in News and Current Affairs Programming category of the 2021 Community Radio Awards! We congratulate our joint winner of the Excellence in News...
Friday 10 December 2021 A broad coalition of Western Australian community organisations today launched a major campaign for the Western Australian Parliament to adopt a Human Rights Act. The announcement was made at the event Towards a Human Rights Act for Western Australia, held on the anniversary of United Nations Human Rights Day...
Guests: Hayley O’Hara, Managing Solicitor of the ALSWA Custody Notification Service (CNS) and Dennis Eggington, ALSWA CEO. This is the final program for 2021. We look forward to returning to the airwaves in 2022. [audio mp3="https://als.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Law-Matters-EP-1689-8-12-21.mp3"][/audio] Download ...
Law Matters Issue 5 - October/November 2021 Bi-monthly E-Newsletter of the Aboriginal Legal Service of WA Ltd Striving for Justice for over 45 years Law Matters October/November 2021 ...
Guests: As part of WA Mental Health Week, hear from Danielle Cameron from BlackBirds Culture Rob Hulls, Director of the Centre for Innovative Justice at RMIT talks about the Centre, and some of the injustice he has witnessed against First Nations Peoples over the years. Rob previously served as the Attorney-General...