Creating Change

2023 Law Reform, Policy, and Advocacy Submissions

Wom­en’s Legal Ser­vices Aus­tralia Submissions

Expo­sure Draft of the Fam­i­ly Law Amend­ment Bill (No.2) 2023, 21 Novem­ber 2023

Feed­back on the Issues Paper: A stronger, more diverse and inde­pen­dent com­mu­ni­ty sec­tor, 7 Novem­ber 2023

Inde­pen­dent Review of the Nation­al Legal Assis­tance Part­ner­ship, A sus­tain­able, mod­ern, safe and client-cen­tered approach to address­ing the legal needs of women’, 27 Octo­ber 2023

Sub­mis­sion to the Mul­ti­cul­tur­al Frame­work Review, 29 Sep­tem­ber 2023

Inquiry into the wors­en­ing rental cri­sis in Aus­tralia, 4 August 2023

Response to Dis­cus­sion Paper: Con­tin­u­ing Pro­fes­sion­al Devel­op­ment for Legal Prac­ti­tion­ers on Coer­cive Con­trol, 21 July 2023

Feed­back on Youth Jus­tice and Child Well­be­ing Reform, 30 June 2023

Sub­mis­sion to the Sen­ate Legal and Con­sti­tu­tion­al Affairs Leg­is­la­tion Com­mit­tee Inquiry into the Fam­i­ly Law Amend­ment Bill 2023, 23 June 2023

Sub­mis­sion on the Inquiry into the Fam­i­ly Law Amend­ment (Infor­ma­tion Shar­ing) Bill 2023, 26 May 2023

Sub­mis­sion on Spe­cialised and Trau­ma-Informed Legal Ser­vices Pilot for Vic­tims and Sur­vivors of Sex­u­al Assault, 15 May 2023

Response to Admin­is­tra­tive Review Reform Issues Paper, 12 May 2023

Sub­mis­sion on the Nation­al Strat­e­gy to Achieve Gen­der Equal­i­ty, 18 April 2023

Sub­mis­sion on the Review into an Appro­pri­ate Cost Mod­el for Com­mon­wealth Anti-Dis­crim­i­na­tion Laws (2023), 14 April 2023

Sub­mis­sion on the Terms of Ref­er­ence of the Mul­ti­cul­tur­al Frame­work Review, 17 March 2023

Sub­mis­sion on the Inquiry into Cur­rent and Pro­posed Sex­u­al Con­sent Laws in Aus­tralia, 16 March 2023

Feed­back on the Imple­men­ta­tion Report for changes to the Fair Work Act 2009, 2 March 2023

Response to the Expo­sure Draft Fam­i­ly Law Amend­ment Bill 2023, 27 Feb­ru­ary 2023

Posi­tion Sum­ma­ry on the Expo­sure Draft of the Fam­i­ly Law Amend­ment Bill 2023, 21 Feb­ru­ary 2023

Wom­en’s Legal Ser­vices Fed­er­al Pre-Bud­get Sub­mis­sion 2023 – 2024, 27 Jan­u­ary 2023

NT Wom­en’s Legal Ser­vices (NTWLS) Submissions

Sub­mis­sion in response to the Expo­sure Draft of the Domes­tic and Fam­i­ly Vio­lence Amend­ment Bill 2023, 22 August 2023

Response to the NT DFSV Resource Cen­tre Con­sul­ta­tion Paper, 10 May 2023

Expo­sure Draft Crim­i­nal Jus­tice Leg­is­la­tion Amend­ment (Sex­u­al Offence) Bill 2023, 20 Feb­ru­ary 2023

Endorsed Sub­mis­sions

Power2Prevent Joint State­ment, 14 April 2023