Community Legal Centres Australia

Community Legal Centres Australia The national peak body for community legal centres.

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All people deserve autonomy, safety, and fair access to community life.We stand in solidarity with the many people with ...
27/08/2026

All people deserve autonomy, safety, and fair access to community life.
We stand in solidarity with the many people with lived experience who offered their knowledge during public hearings, but whose expertise decision-makers have ultimately ignored.

24/08/2026

BREAKING: Today we’re at Parliament House handing over our petition with 50,000+ signatures calling for an Australian Human Rights Act. The message to the Albanese Government is clear: there is strong community support for a Human Rights Act to ensure everyone’s human rights are protected in law.

The petition was handed to a cross-section of Labor, Greens and independent Federal MPs and Senators. 50,000 people have spoken. Now it’s time for the Albanese Government to protect human rights.

The petition is organised by the Centre and Amnesty International Australia as part of the Human Rights Act Campaign, which is backed by 184 organisations nationwide.

Join the call for human rights protections: humanrightsact.org.au

An amazing event from NATSILS - who have been spending the last week in Canberra furthering their campaign to end the yo...
24/08/2026

An amazing event from NATSILS - who have been spending the last week in Canberra furthering their campaign to end the youth justice crisis.
On Wednesday our CEO Tim Leach was able to lend Community Legal Centres Australia's support in NATSILS calls for a national response on youth justice.
It is crucial our government lifts the minimum age of criminal responsibility, and legislates minimum conditions for young people detained. Hearing from experts in the psychology field and from young people with lived experience at the event, the psycho-social impact is clear and must be addressed.
As the Senate Inquiry into Youth Justice continues, we remind the Commonwealth that the solutions to this crisis have been brought to governments consistently by advocates, workers and community - they just need to be implemented.

"Victoria’s community legal centres are raising significant concerns with the VictorianGovernment’s Corrections Amendmen...
11/08/2026

"Victoria’s community legal centres are raising significant concerns with the Victorian
Government’s Corrections Amendment Bill 2026, (“No Air in Prison Bill”) which is set to be
introduced in the Legislative Assembly this sitting week.
Developed as a response to the recent Supreme Court judgment in Marrogi,1 which found
that depriving a prisoner of one hour per day in the open air breached both the Corrections
Act 1986 (Vic) and the state’s Charter of Human Rights and Responsibilities, the No Air in
Prison Bill seeks to remove the legal requirement to provide access to fresh air, instead
leaving it subject to ‘operational considerations’ at correctional facilities." - Federation of Community Legal Centres

Read the full article
https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/law-crime/2026/08/08/victoria-flouts-nelson-mandela-rule-outdoor-prison-time

NAIDOC Week celebrates the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples. This week...
10/07/2026

NAIDOC Week celebrates the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples. This week and every week we celebrate and are grateful for the wonderful contributions of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander workers in our sector. This year’s celebrations of 50 Years of Deadly are marred by the Federal Government’s recent rejection of key human rights recommendations that would support Closing the Gap.

Media release: 1 Year of the National Access to Justice Partnership and the gaps still show“The first year of the access...
08/07/2026

Media release: 1 Year of the National Access to Justice Partnership and the gaps still show

“The first year of the access to justice partnership has seen our centres continue to provide critical services to communities before legal issues snowball into crises. However, we want to warn all governments against thinking that the issue of funding for legal assistance is ‘fixed’. Funding shortfalls, rising legal need and complexity, and jurisdictional failings around administration of funds must be addressed if we want to see legal support be truly accessible by those who need it most.” - Dr Tim Leach CEO

07/07/2026

Community Legal Centres Australia is glad to be consulting on the Second Action Plan under the National Plan to End Violence against Women and Children 2022 – 2032.

This morning's consultation roundtable with the Assistant Minister for Social Services, the Hon Ged Kearney MP was a great chance to speak about the importance of legal assistance and the wrap-around social support our sector provides is for women and children fleeing violence.
It was wonderful to see the broader sector also represented by Phillipa Davis Principal Solicitor from Women's Legal Service NSW

There are only a few days left! We need your help spreading the word to meet the sign-up target for our sector, so pleas...
07/07/2026

There are only a few days left! We need your help spreading the word to meet the sign-up target for our sector, so please circulate to your sector contacts.
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Visit clcs.org.au/fp/ now and tell your colleagues.
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Today is the National Day for Protest Rights. Community Legal Centres Australia supports the right to protest as fundame...
03/07/2026

Today is the National Day for Protest Rights. Community Legal Centres Australia supports the right to protest as fundamental to our democracy. We must

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