Legal News

Reminder – transfer any legal cases now

Reminder to clients of Aboriginal Legal Aid in Tasmania that they need to contact their lawyer at Beeton & Mansell to arrange transfer of their case to another legal aid service. This is because the Abbott government gave Aboriginal legal aid funding to the Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service instead of to the Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre which had operated the service for over 40 years. TAC will continue to assist community members in whatever way we can. Please contact your lawyer or ... Read more

Victoria to take over Tasmanian Legal Service

https://youtu.be/BSG8a8-pH6   The Federal Government has stripped funding from the Tasmanian Aboriginal Legal Service - with those monies headed for the Victorian service. Tasmania was the only state to feel the axe in such a fashion - prompting a defiant backlash from Aboriginal Tasmanians. NITV News Video Journalist Kris Flanders has more.   Read more

MEDIA COVERAGE FOR ABORIGINAL LEGAL SERVICE BEING DEFUNDED

To view videos relating to the Aboriginal Legal Service being defunded, please click here Recent Media:   Tasmanian Times 16 June 2015: NITV News 26 June 2015:           Read more

Tasmanian Aboriginal Legal Service Face Funding cuts: Green Left Weekly

Please click here to view: https://www.greenleft.org.au/node/59239 Read more

Save Our Legal Service

Please listen to full media coverage in relation to saving our legal service: Read more

interview with Lara Giddings on cuts to the TAC Legal Service

Please listen to full interview with Lara Giddings on cuts to the TAC Legal Service: Read more

Matthew Verney from the Tasmanian Law Society on cuts to the TAC Legal Service

Please listen to full interview with Matthew Verney from the Tasmanian Law Society on cuts to the TAC Legal Service:   Read more

Interview with Cassie O’Connor on cuts to TAC Legal Service

Please listen to full interview with Cassie O'Connor on cuts to the TAC Legal Service: Read more

How You Can Help Save the Legal Service:

Please click here to view: How can you help save our Tasmanian Aboriginal Legal Service - Info sheet F Read more

Save our Legal Service Responses from Bryan Green and Lara Giddings:

Please click here to view response from Bryan Green and Lara Giddings in relation to Aboriginal Legal Service being defunded TAC re Legal Service Read more
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