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1. Aboriginal Legal Access Program Radio Show
CLC/Agency: Northern Rivers Community Legal Centre
Contact Person: Karin Ness
Jurisdiction: NSW Commonwealth

The Northern Rivers CLC's Aboriginal Legal Access Program (ALAP) has a weekly radio show on 88.9fm Richmond Valley Radio. The show features Indigenous music, and legal and other relevant information.

88.9fm is a community radio station situated at Bora Ridge with a large listening base derived from the local Aboriginal communities.

The Centre started the program in mid November 2011 and has so far featured NRCLC services, domestic violence, human rights, youth legal issues and family law and children. The ALAP radio show is an access to justice initiative that aims to convey legal information to the local Aboriginal communities and to increase participation in the Centre’s outreach advice locations.

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2. Advocacy Indigenous DVD
CLC/Agency: Darwin Community Legal Service
Contact Person: Lorraine Gibbs
Jurisdiction: NT

This DVD assists people to access advocacy and legal assistance from the Darwin Community Legal Service. It provides a pragmatic explanation aimed at Indigenous people and demystifies the process for gaining assistance.

This DVD has proven popular with our remote clients and we hope to make it available in other Indigenous languages in the future. DCLS would welcome partnerships with other organisations to make this happen.

3. Cop This!
CLC/Agency: Northern Territory Legal Aid Commission
Contact Person: Melanie Robinson
Jurisdiction: NT

When dealing with police it is important to know your rights. This package of resources includes a booklet, DVD and learning sequence which fits in with the NT Curriculum Framework for schools

4. Driving in Western Australia video
CLC/Agency: Northern Suburbs Community Legal Centre
Contact Person: Scott Johnson
Jurisdiction: WA

A video produced about getting your licence in WA and numerous common problems associated with driving laws. Target clientele is CALD and Indigenous.

5. Finance & Consumer Issues
CLC/Agency: Northern Suburbs Community Legal Centre
Contact Person: Scott Johnson
Jurisdiction: WA

Community Education on finance and consumer issues, delivered to CALD community. Primarily through TAFEs, schools, Community organisations. Preventative education based on our legal experience and utilizing innovative teaching methods such as role play to people of non first language English speakers.

6. Older people and planning ahead
CLC/Agency: Illawarra Legal Centre
Contact Person: Linda Brazier
Jurisdiction: NSW Commonwealth

Illawarra Legal Centre used Seniors Week to remind older people about planning ahead by highlighting issues such as making a will, appointing an attorney and guardian, and Centrelink entitlements and aged pensions. The Centre’s Welfare Rights Advocate and a solicitor co-presented an hour-long session on community radio, followed by a Q&A format. An information stall was also held in Wollongong Mall.

7. Radio MAMA
CLC/Agency: Geraldton Community Legal Centre
Contact Person: Lori Hart
Jurisdiction: WA

The centre appears on radio once a fortnight and discussed timely legal issues which affect the community.

8. Solid Arts
CLC/Agency: Arts Law Centre
Contact Person: Robyn Ayres
Jurisdiction: Commonwealth

The project will develop the following Indigenous Intellectual Property (IIP) resources…

  • The Solid Arts website, which will include case studies and provide a portal for users wanting information about IIP
  • Short audio recordings (MP3s) suitable for radio play in Indigenous languages about various IIP issues. These will also be available for download through the website
  • A video dealing with a range of IIP issues, again using various case studies that will also be available through the website
  • Posters for Indigenous artists on IIP issues
  • Information for consumers and commercial operators, and
  • A face-to-face education program for key stakeholder groups
PDF 9. Standing Firm Against Family Violence Campaign
CLC/Agency: Aboriginal Family Violence Prevention and Legal Service
Contact Person: Sam Nixon
Jurisdiction: VIC

The Aboriginal Family Violence Prevention & Legal Service Victoria (FVPLS Victoria) is launching the Standing Firm against Family Violence campaign to raise awareness on family violence and empower Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander women to look after themselves and stand firm against family violence.

The campaign, which will use video, also aims to provide positive reinforcement of messages of resilience and self-care and strengthen networks to better assist victims and survivors of family violence.

The campaign will be launched on the 21st of November 2011 and we will be inviting Koori women, workers from Koori organisations and mainstream services that support Koori victims of family violence to join us for t...

10. Super Law DVD and Workbook
CLC/Agency: Central Australian Aboriginal Family Legal Unit Aboriginal Corporation
Contact Person: Phynea Clarke
Jurisdiction: NT

The DVD and workbook were developed to provide culturally sensitive and appropriate visual and audio aids to assist with the delivery of education about domestic and family violence.

It was developed in close consultation with senior members of the Central Australia Aboriginal Community. The end result was a locally relevant education tool, which incorporates local Aboriginal and colloquial English language to educate people about Australian law but which also respects and acknowledges Aboriginal law and empowers people to make their own choices about their actions.

11. Visioning Justice
CLC/Agency: Springvale Monash Legal Service
Contact Person: Bec Smith/Helen Yandell
Jurisdiction: VIC

Young people from diverse backgrounds in Melbourne have experienced significant alienation stemming from the fear evoked in media representations and have subsequently faced intensified police attention and increased justice system intervention.

In 2011 SMLS undertook the Visioning Justice Project, which worked with a small group of these young people. Participants received comprehensive radio production and legal education training. Participants then produced a series of radio documentaries discussing the law, policing and the criminal justice system, including their own experiences and ideas for change.

One of the projects key aims was to get young people’s experiences and opinions onto the airwaves and into the p...

12. What's the law?
CLC/Agency: National Legal Aid and Australian Legal Aid Commissions
Contact Person: Kenton Molloy
Jurisdiction: ACT WA NSW NT QLD SA TAS VIC Commonwealth

What's the law? has been developed by legal aid commissions for use in the Adult Migrant English Program (AMEP). AMEP provide 510 hours of free English language classes to newly arrived migrants and refugees.

The kit can also be used in other classroom and community settings.

The kit features a DVD that is based on the concept in Getting to know the law in my new country, created by Footscray CLC in 2009-10 for AMEP classes in Victoria.

The kit features a series of 10 audio visual stories and activities that reflect legal issues commonly experienced by new arrivals. The stories are drawn from real case studies. The kit also includes activity sheets for students and answer sheets for educators, as well as tip...

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