Guests: Aboriginal Legal Service of WA Director of Legal Services Peter Collins discusses this week’s announcement that a 24 hour hotline will be set up requiring police to call the ALSWA whenever an Aboriginal person is brought into a lock-up; and: It’s Scams Awareness Week so we
Read more →Acclaimed author Kim Scott spoke about his latest novel ‘Taboo’ with presenters Jim Morrison and Jodi Hoffmann (ALSWA Media Officer). Listen to the program here: http://rtrfm.com.au/story/moorditj-mag-with-kim-scott-jodie-hoffman-and-jim-morrison/
Read more →Guests: Greg McIntyre, Senior Vice President, Law Society of WA and Dennis Eggington, CEO, Aboriginal Legal Service of WA *Law Week is on from 14-18 May 2018 – Information available on the LSWA Website Download
Read more →Sallie McLean, Principal Legal Officer, Australian Law Reform Commission about ‘Pathways to Justice – An Inquiry into the Incarceration Rate of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples’ Rodney Dillon, Amnesty Indigenous Rights Advisor Bonnie Djordjevic, ALSWA Civil and Human Rights Unit lawyer Download
Read more →Guests: Nyoongar human rights lawyer Dr. Hannah McGlade, and from the ALSWA Broome office, Court Officer Teeka Skeen and lawyer Marcus Dyason Download
Read more →Guests: ALSWA Community Legal Education Officer Sabah Rind, and ALSWA Civil/Human Rights Unit Lawyer Ashley Truscott (discussing the rights of prisoners). Download
Read more →Kevin Blurton, ALSWA Bunbury Senior Court Officer, on 30 years at ALSWA – Kevin is also the Male recipient of the NATSILS Trevor Christian Award for Employee of the Year nationally. Journalist Michael Brull from New Matilda about his 5 part series on the treatment of
Read more →In our final program for 2017, ALSWA CEO Dennis Eggington and WA Police Commissioner Chris Dawson discuss ways of moving forward and how the over-representation of Aboriginal people in the criminal justice system can be overcome. We also speak with David Braddock, Head of the Child Welfare
Read more →Guest: Jim Morrison, 2017 joint recipient (with Angela Ryder) of the 2017 John Curtin Medal Download
Read more →LAW MATTERS Program 118, 13th September 2017 Guests: Black Comedy’s Steven Oliver is an Ambassador for R U OK. He joins us to chat about the importance of R U OK’s vision, which is of a world where we’re all connected and protected from suicide. Their mission
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