This is the final Law Matters program for 2018. We will return to the airwaves in 2019. This show features the year in review as Jodi Hoffmann chats with Dennis Eggington, Aboriginal Legal Service of WA CEO, about some of the key issues of the past year.
Read more →23 November 2018 Today’s announcement that the Custody Notification Service (CNS) is a step closer to implementation in Western Australia has been welcomed by the Aboriginal Legal Service of WA (ALSWA). The CNS will provide a much needed 24 hour welfare and legal advice phone line
Read more →Release Date: 23 November 2018 Media release Joint Media Release Senator the Hon. Nigel Scullion – Commonwealth Minister for Indigenous Affairs Hon. John Quigley MLA – WA Attorney General Hon. Michelle Roberts MLA – Minister for Police Custody Notification Service (CNS) to be introduced in WA 24-hour
Read more →ALSWA Submission Number 2 to the Review of s 9AA of the Sentencing Act
Read more →ALSWA Submission to Discussion Paper – An office for advocacy and accountability in Aboriginal Affairs in WA FINAL
Read more →Submission to the Auditor General’s Inquiry into Managing Distruptive Behaviour and Illegal Activities in Public Housing
Read more →Guests: Neil Anderson, ALSWA Family Law Unit Manager and ALSWA CEO Dennis Eggington Download
Read more →Guests: WA Chief Justice the Hon Peter Quinlan SC and Paul Kaplan from the First Nations Deaths in Custody Watch Committee. Download
Read more →Calla Wahlquist from The Guardian Australia discusses the Database that the Guardian have researched and established called: Deaths Inside: Indigenous Australian deaths in custody, which can be viewed online at: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/ng-interactive/2018/aug/28/deaths-inside-indigenous-australian-deaths-in-custody Download
Read more →Guests: Mel Thomas from the University of WA lets us know about the 13th National Indigenous Law Conference which takes place at UWA on 25-26 September 2018. More information on the conference at: http://www.nilc2018.com.au/ Richard Weston, CEO at Healing Foundation, discusses a report launched earlier today (collated
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