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Asylum Explained websiteThe Asylum Explained website provides interactive, plain English information about the process of seeking asylum in Australia. It is a resource for asylum seekers and people supporting asylum seekers. It includes fact sheets that provide simple guides to the process:
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Australia and my Family: What are the Laws? Designed for use by service providers and educators, this is a kit with activities, plain English handouts, resources, background information and facilitators notes including structured sample session outlines. The kit was developed as part of the CALD communities project after consultation and collaboration with community members, leaders and service providers. |
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Australia's National Human Rights Action Plan 2012 Written submission to Attorney General's Department on Exposure Draft of Australia's National Human Rights Action Plan 2012. |
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Australian laws Talk for Karen people who are clients of the MRC about various aspects of Australian law. |
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Banning Canal Estates Campaign to support the proposed introduction of a prohibition on canal estate development in Tasmania |
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Bar coasters to promote community legal service 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. |
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Being a Support Person for a Young Person This workshop is for youth workers and covers being a 'Support Person' for a young person at the police station, including the role of a Support Person sitting in on a police interview, as well as supporting a young person at court. |
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Bendigo's Legal Precinct Publication profiling free legal services for people in Bendigo and providing a glimpse into Bendigo's contribution to Victorian and Australian legal history. |
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Best for Kids website Best for Kids provides family law information for parents and children. It aims to ensure that the interests of children are a high priority when families separate. The site features:
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Between a rock and a hard place Between a Rock and a Hard Place assists community workers to get the most out of the legal system for their clients. The publication covers many common legal areas that community workers encounter when managing their clients issues. There is a comprehensive and easy to understand manual and it is available online as a PDF. |
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Boarders & Lodgers Law Reform A campaign to introduce legislation to cover boarders and lodgers in NSW. The campaign involved submissions to politicians, engaging in policy debate, running test cases at the CTTT (eg on the definition of boarders and lodgers as exclusions to the Residential Tenancy Act 2010, or to have boarders and lodgers covered by the General Division of the CTTT), and the development of a Legal Remedies Kit that highlights the inadequacy of current remedies for boarders and lodgers. |
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Boys, you wanna give me some action? ‘Boys, you wanna give me some action?’: Interventions into Policing of Racialised Communities in Melbourne examined African young peoples’ experience of policing in three regions of Melbourne, including the Western suburbs. It found that ‘community policing’ initiatives do not ameliorate the commonly identified negative impacts of traditional over-policing practices. In fact, the relationships fostered between police and African young people through community policing initiatives were often used for intelligence gathering purposes and were ultimately damaging for the young people involved, leading in some cases to criminal proceedings. |
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Bring Your Bills Days The Bring Your Bills Program is an advocacy process that brings appropriate community, government and dispute resolution agencies together at a central location for one day for the purpose of assisting low income disadvantaged customers deal with problems arising out of the provision of energy, water and telecommunications services. Other services and problems, such as housing could be added depending on community need. The program seeks to encourage low income and disadvantaged consumers to bring their contracts, statements and bills to the event without the need to identify a legal problem or dispute. The agencies in attendance will listen to clients, review their documents and assess their need for assistance. Follow ... |
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Bulk Debt Negotiation Scheme Instead of negotiating hardship cases or repayment plans on a case-by-case basis, matters with a common creditor (eg a finance company, insurer or utility provider) are bundled and negotiated together. |
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Buying or Building a House Footscray CLC has developed a DVD on the subject "What You Need to Know Before Buying or Building a House - For Refugee Communities." The Project was developed in response to a large number of home ownership scams affecting refugee communities in Melbourne's western suburbs (see Chapter 15 in FCLC's Report, Making it Home: Refugee Housing in Melbourne's West). The DVD is a resource for financial counsellors and settlement services to educate refugee communities on the basics around the decision to buy or build a house. Issues that are raised include:
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Calling All Tenants The Tenants Union of Tasmania created a website and produced a TV Advertisement with the help of volunteers. WIN screen it for free as a Community Service Announcement. |
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Carbon Farming Initiative The EDO (Vic.) worked with government, NGOs and community members to improve the design of the Carbon Farming Initiative, and the legislation that implemented it. |
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Caring for the Coast This project consists of a publication designed to help people understand their legal rights and obligations as a member of a coastal community and to assist them in being informed and active participants in environmental and planning decisions that affect coastal environments. The publication can be complemented by community workshops. |
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Castaway Campaign 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. |
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Centrelink Workshop A seminar on Representing Clients with Centrelink Prosecutions |