Media Releases

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  ...

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...

Law Matters Program  168, 29th September 2021 Guests: Megan Krakouer and Gerry Georgatos (The National Suicide Prevention and Trauma Recovery Project) are in Broome, Derby, Fitzroy Crossing, Halls Creek and Kununurra this week.  They are meeting with community members and organisations to let them know about a potential Class Action for anyone...

Guests on today's LAW MATTERS; Sophie Stewart, Campaign Coordinator, Social Reinvestment WA – RAISE THE AGE Rebecca Slater, Senior Legal Secretary, ALSWA Kalgoorlie, and winner of the Trevor Christian Memorial Award (with sister Leslie) Kyra Collard, ALSWA Perth Data Entry Assistant [audio mp3="https://als.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Law-Matters-1-9-21.mp3"][/audio] Download...