ALSWA made a brief submission in response to the ALRC Discussion Paper on Family Violence – Commonwealth Laws (ALRC Discussion Paper). ALSWA’s submission refers to and endorses the submissions of the Central Australian Aboriginal Legal Aid Service (CAALAS) and the North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency (NAAJA). This
Read more →ALSWA prepared a brief submission in response to the invitation by the Legislative Council of Western Australia (WA) Standing Committee on Uniform Legislation and Statues Review (the Committee) to make written submissions on the Criminal Appeals Amendment (Double Jeopardy) Bill 2011 (the Bill). ALSWA’s submission sets out
Read more →This submission is made in response to the invitation by the National Justice CEOs Group, Standing Committee of Attorneys-General (SCAG), to make written submissions on the questions presented in its Discussion Paper on ‘National Guidelines or Principles for Restorative Justice Programs and Processes for Criminal Matters’. The
Read more →This submission was made in response to the Law Reform Commission of Western Australia’s (LRC) Discussion Paper regarding the Community Protection (Offender Reporting) Act 2004 (WA) (the Act). The LRC examined the application of the Act to juvenile reportable offenders and to certain adult reportable offenders who
Read more →‘Justice Reinvestment’ Law and Advocacy Unit Justice Reinvestment Forum: Build Communities Not Prisons Deaths in Custody Watch Committee Thursday May 12th from 2 – 4pm Mercy Employment & Community Programmes 4 Brewer Place Mirrabooka WA 6061 The abstract for the presentation is below: Australia has epidemic and
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Annual Sir Ronald Wilson Lecture 2012 8thAugust 2012 From the Doctrine of Discovery to the Recognition of Sovereignty The Impact of the British/Australian Legal System on Aboriginal Western Australians from Colonisation to the Present Adjunct Professor Dennis Eggington Chief Executive Officer Aboriginal Legal Service of Western Australia
Read more →The Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody was established in October 1987 in response to a growing public concern that deaths in custody of Aboriginal people were too common and that explanations were too evasive. The final report, released on 15 April 1991 investigated 99 deaths
Read more →The National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Services (NATSILS) prepared this submission to comment on the Australian Government Attorney-General’s Department Background Paper on the development of a new National Human Rights Action Plan (‘Action Plan’). The Action Plan forms part of Australia’s Human Rights Framework (‘Framework’)
Read more →This submission was in response to the proposal by the Department of the Attorney General (DotAG) of Western Australia (WA) to investigate the introduction of a ‘two tier’ framework for Justices of the Peace (JPs) in Western Australia (WA). The submission demonstrates short comings by way of
Read more →The Aboriginal Legal Service of Western Australia (Inc.) (ALSWA) and Shelter WA prepared this joint submission in response to the Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs (FaHCSIA) Indigenous Home Ownership Issues Paper, released in May 2010. The submission noted many benefits in promoting and
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