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2022 - ANNUAL REPORT - ABORIGINAL LEGAL SERVICE OF WA LTD

18 Nov 2022

are those doing it tough on the streets, in the I commenced as ALSWA CEO on the 24th of lock ups and prisons, and the merry-go-round January 1996, and having spent almost three of our youth becoming trapped in the criminal decades with ALSWA, my own family has justice cycle, to the stage where it’s almost grown, as has our ALSWA family. [...] Invest in early intervention, therapeutic the face and head, a man who was bitten on the and culturally-appropriate trauma-informed face while handcuffed and a mentally unwell supports for young people across the State man who was bitten when already in police to minimise the risks of involvement in the custody. [...] Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture, the Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous In May 2022, the CCC published a report peoples and the United Nations Subcommittee which highlighted the overrepresentation of on the Prevention of Torture, arguing that the Aboriginal people in interactions with police regimes in Banksia Hill Detention Centre and dogs. [...] ALSWA has also raised ALSWA’s Family Law Unit its concerns in meetings with the Minister In the middle of 2022, ALSWA lawyer, Jonathon for Corrective Services, representatives Reid, commenced as the managing lawyer of from the Department of Justice and with the Family Law Unit. [...] During the period, the Aboriginal Legal Service The Corona virus (COVID19) has continued of Western Australia Limited (ALSWA) recorded to complicate the delivery of frontline legal total comprehensive income of $102,090 and and advocacy services provided by ALSWA revenue of $19,836,252 and the general operations of the company, necessitating our employees to practice The balance sheet remains stro.
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