06/09/2024
NATSILS MEDIA RELEASE: Insufficient funding for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Services will fail to close gap between need and help available
National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Services (NATSILS) says the funding announced for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Services today means no new services or representation will be possible.
04/09/2024
NATSILS MEDIA RELEASE: Legal experts warn new NT Government’s punitive agenda will backfire and increase crime
The peak body for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Services has congratulated the incoming Chief Minister Lia Finocchiaro for the Country Liberal Party’s clear victory, but warned that she is already on a path to make crime worse in the Northern Territory.
25/07/2024
JOINT MEDIA RELEASE: Condemning the state sanctioned abuse and mass incarceration of First Nations children with disability
In the wake of horrific footage emerging of guards in an adult watch house in QLD violently forcing an Aboriginal child with disability into solitary confinement, The First Peoples Disability Network (FPDN), NATSILS (including QLD ATSILS) and SNAICC call for the end of solitary confinement and the over-incarceration of Aboriginal kids with disability.
29/05/2024
NATSILS MEDIA RELEASE: Aboriginal legal services vindicated by government review recommending significant funding increase
After months of sounding the alarm on a funding crisis, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Services are vindicated today by the findings of an independent review of the legal assistance sector commissioned by government.
15/05/2024
NATSILS MEDIA RELEASE: Budget treats First Nations justice as an afterthought
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Services across the country will have to continue getting by on a shoestring after the Federal Budget failed to provide meaningful relief.
28/03/2024
NATSILS MEDIA RELEASE: State governments turn away from Closing the Gap and blindly implement failed ‘anti-violence’ strategies that increase violence
Responding to the announcement of a new youth curfew in Alice Springs, continued fearmongering and even threats of a new “intervention”, the national peak body for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Services (NATSILS) says state governments around Australia have proven themselves incapable of a basic history lesson.
19/05/2023
NATSILS MEDIA RELEASE: Small increase to ATSILS funding will help keep the lights on, but won’t stop all service freezes
Issued in partnership with National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Services, Aboriginal Legal Rights Movement South Australia, Aboriginal Legal Service of Western Australia, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Service (QLD) Ltd, North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency, Tasmanian Aboriginal Legal Service, Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service.
17/04/2023
NATSILS MEDIA RELEASE: Emergency funding needed to prevent imminent service freezes: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Services
Issued in partnership with National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Services, Aboriginal Legal Rights Movement South Australia, Aboriginal Legal Service of Western Australia, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Service (QLD) Ltd, North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency, Tasmanian Aboriginal Legal Service, Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service.
29/03/2022
NATSILS MEDIA RELEASE: “Yet again, the Budget lets our people down” – Lack of funding for Aboriginal Legal Services further entrenches our people into the justice system
The National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Service (NATSILS) is concerned that no additional funding for legal assistance services or peak justice body will further see our people disproportionately overrepresented in the criminal legal system.
28/03/2022
NATSILS Media Release: Young Noongar man dies in custody in Perth
NATSILS is deeply saddened to learn of the death of young Noongar man in Perth’s Hakea prison over the weekend. Our thoughts are with his family and loved ones at this difficult time.
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