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ALS offices in Greater Sydney remain closed due to COVID restrictions
19 July 2021 To protect our communities during the current COVID-19 outbreak, ALS offices in Greater Sydney and Wollongong are closed to the public. Across NSW, we are meeting with clients over phone and video-link wherever possible and minimising face-to-face contact. The following offices will remain closed to the general public until at least Monday 2 August, subject to further announcements and public...
READ MOREWhite Police and Black Power | Part 2
16 July 2021 Dr Gary Foley is a founder of the Aboriginal Legal Service. To mark our 50th anniversary, we asked him to share his recollections of the racial justice movement in the 1970s and how the ALS began. Below is Part 2 of his essay, White Police and Black Power: The Origins of the Aboriginal Legal Service. ⫷Missed Part 1? Start...
READ MOREFamily and Aboriginal Legal Service demand answers after Aboriginal man dies in custody
MEDIA RELEASE Wednesday 14 July 2021 Frank ‘Gud’ Coleman, a 43-year-old Ngemba man born in Brewarrina and raised in Mt Druitt, died on Thursday 8 July at the Long Bay Correctional Complex. Frank is one of at least 478 Aboriginal people to die in prisons and police incidents since the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody. He is fondly remembered and...
READ MOREWhite Police and Black Power | Part 1
9 July 2021 Dr Gary Foley is a founder of the Aboriginal Legal Service. To mark our 50th anniversary, we asked him to share his recollections of the racial justice movement in the 1970s and how the ALS began. Below is Part 1 of his essay, White Police and Black Power: The Origins of the Aboriginal Legal Service. "Liberties are not...
READ MOREAboriginal Legal Service invites community to elect Company Members
MEDIA RELEASE Additional note as of 24 June: Due to the COVID outbreak and restrictions imposed, the ALS is postponing the community meeting scheduled in Redfern on Saturday 26 June 2021 to elect ALS Company Members for the Central South Eastern Region. Please disregard information below for the Central South Eastern Region meeting and visit www.alsnswact.org.au/company_elections for up-to-date information. The Northern Region and Western...
READ MORE7+ ways to be an ally this Reconciliation Week
27 May 2021 National Reconciliation Week runs from 27 May to 3 June. This year's theme is 'More than a word: reconciliation takes action'. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, communities and organisations are already taking strong and decisive actions towards justice and equity – but reconciliation can’t be achieved until non-Indigenous Australians take action by getting behind us. The National...
READ MORECanberra info sessions about the Disability Royal Commission
We are co-hosting four information sessions about the Disability Royal Commission in Canberra, and you're invited. Come along to learn about the free, independent, and confidential supports that are available to tell your story. Hosted by ADACAS, Advocacy for Inclusion, Relationships Australia and Your Story Disability Legal Support (a joint initiative of National Legal Aid and National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Services)...
READ MOREAboriginal Legal Service welcomes charges against police officer for alleged assault of Aboriginal boy
MEDIA RELEASE Tuesday 4 May 2021, 4:30 pm The Aboriginal Legal Service has welcomed charges brought against a serving NSW Police officer for common assault and assault occasioning actual bodily harm, following an arrest of an Aboriginal boy in June last year. Video footage of the arrest went viral at the time, taking place amid Black Lives Matter protests worldwide following...
READ MOREClosing the Gap in NSW - have your say
20 April 2021 As part of the NSW Coalition of Aboriginal Peaks (CAPO), we at the Aboriginal Legal Service are calling for your feedback on Closing the Gap. The National Agreement on Closing the Gap is built around four priority reforms to change the way in which governments work with Aboriginal people. There is also a NSW-specific priority reform on economic...
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