Campaign to improve assessment and regulation of agricultural chemical use in Tasmania, including submission on proposed spraying regulations.

Aim: to promote the Illawarra Legal Centre to the wider community, and in particular to target males by producing disposable bar coasters with simple messages and contact details.

Method: coasters delivered to 20 licensed premises (hotels and clubs) in the Illawarra region.

In Queensland, the United Nations Convention on the Rights of a Child is breached every day as 17 year olds are charged and imprisoned as adults.

The Castaway campaign highlights that young people have the responsibilities of adults without the rights of adults, so they are legal castaways.

The project will facilitate 100 young people to write 100 individual messages to be placed in a bottle and sent to 100 community leaders as a "message in a bottle." The campaign will also be supported by social media.

The EDO worked to improve the design of the Climate Change Act before it was introduced in 2010, and then to prevent the State Government winding it back in 2011-12.

Tenants NSW participates on the registrar of Community Housing's Advisory Forum, including discussion about draft "Compliance Framework", released for comment in September 2010.

We conducted preliminary research into the public availability of community housing providers' tenancy management policies. We provided comment to the Community Housing Divison (CHD) of Housing NSW about guidance to providers on use of 'no-cause' termination notices.

We understand that the Centre for Affordable Housing (CAH) is looking at providing similar guidance to affordable housing providers not covered by the CHD. Our discussions with the CHD and CAH on this issue are ongoing.

We had further discussion with the ...

The Illawarra Legal Centre wrote submissions, undertook advocacy work and developed educational resources on Fines and Work and Development Orders (WDO) outlining legislative and policy changes that reduce or eliminate fines debt and worked for improvements to these changes.

The Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) sheets and wallet cards for young people are the basis of educational sessions and law reform work.

Work and Development Orders (WDO) were a key feature of the changes to the Fines Act and at the heart of our lobbying and advocacy work.

People with disabilities are often dependent on taxi services for point-to-point travel for access to education, employment, purchase of goods and services and social activities. The taxi industry should be seen as a disability service provider, be funded as a disability service provider and accountable as a disability service provider.

The development of the Victorian Taxi Commission should play an active role in regulating the taxi industry as a disability service provider.

DDLS will bring the taxi industry, disability service providers and the agencies that fund disability services together to develop recommendations for how the industry can be funded as a disability service provider and provide point-to-point transpor...

The campaign informs people about the myths around pay day lending and encourages individuals and community organisations to take action. It is based on research findings that demonstrate that high cost loans exploit vulnerable consumers.

The campaign encourages submissions to the parliamentary inquiries considering proposed legislation that will cap the interest on payday loans.

The Consumer Credit and Corporations Legislation Amendment (Enhancements) Bill 2011 (the BIll) is being investigated by two committees; the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial and the Senate Economics Committee.

Tenants NSW commenced a quarterly meeting with Housing NSW Client Service Operations to discuss operational issues. Advocates from the Inner Sydney and Illawarra Tenants Advice and Advocacy Services also attended to provide expert comment on selected agenda items.

Tenants NSW also engaged in consultation on the Housing and Mental Health Agreement (a high-level agreement across a number of government departments to replace the Joint Guarantee of Service) and attended a half-day workshop, hosted by Housing NSW, to discuss the agreement. We also provided written comments on the final draft of the agreement.

We also continued participation on the Housing NSW NGO Partners Reference Group and Living Communities Consultative Com...

Tenants NSW made submissions to:

• Planning NSW's review of the Affordable Rental Housing State Environmental Planning Policy
• the Productivity Commissioner's Public Inquiry into Australia's Urban Water Sector 

We attended a University of Sydney workshop on the financialisation of housing and made contact with researchers.

We also started drafting a paper with a view to commissioning research for an alternative agenda for banking and finance reform with the objective of improved housing affordability.