The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Service (QLD) LTD (ATSILS) advises that all pre court and court circuits into the Torres Strait Islands, Northern Peninsula Area, Gulf of Carpentaria and Cape Regions have been suspended immediately due to the potential health vulnerability of our people in remote communities. ATSILS (QLD) is committed to supporting […]
What’s the best way to engage remote community residents with their superannuation? Break down some of the barriers to access and bring your services to them! That’s what QSuper did when it spent a week with community peoples up in the Northern Peninsula Area (located at the top tip of Cape York, Queensland), on January […]
Kate Greenwood our Prevention, Intervention and Community Legal Education Officer shares her wisdom on how to produce and publish podcasts as a medium for community legal education outreach. Hosted in our Brisbane office training room this month, a network of community legal education professionals from Legal Aid Queensland and Community Legal Centres Queensland joined the […]
It was great to have students from QUT’s Indigenous Pre Law and Justice Program visit our Brisbane office this week. These bright and deadly ones spent time with our team to learn more about the important role of ATSILS in the function of the justice system and our work in protecting and advancing the legal […]
Last week ATSILS were invited to take part in a community event held by QSuper Fund and the Indigenous Consumer Assistance Network Ltd (ICAN) in the Northern Peninsula Area (NPA) of Cape York. Five communities (Seisia, New Mapoon, Bamaga, Umagico and Injinoo) all received a full day visit from a range of service providers that […]
QUT Vice-Chancellor – Margaret Sheil and ATSILS CEO – Shane Duffy have signed off on a new innovative research partnership under a 3 year MoU aimed at improving the delivery of quality legal services to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
Following the success of the first ever NPA Licensing Muster in July 2019, ATSILS has again combined forces with the Queensland Police service, Department of Justice and Attorney-General, Department of Transport and Main Roads (Licensing Mob), NPA Family and Community Services and the NPA Community Justice Groups to deliver a ‘Licencing Muster’ event in the […]
ATSILS took part in National Reconciliation Week celebrations this week on Thursday Island, attending the ’67 Referendum Day Community Gathering and Morning Tea with Elders at the Anglican Church Community Hall. ATSILS participated in providing an information stall for the community along with other Thursday Island Social Justice Interagency Services. Big esso to the coordinators […]
On behalf of our CEO Shane Duffy, the Board of Directors and all the team at ATSILS, we send out a big congratulations to Robyn Lui who has become an officer of the court after her recent admission to the Supreme Court as a lawyer. Alan Watkins a criminal law lawyer with the Cairns team […]
The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Service (QLD) Ltd is appalled at the state of play for children and juveniles currently languishing in police watch houses across Queensland. It is totally unacceptable that such vulnerable young people are being subjected to this type of traumatic treatment whilst under the care of the state. Holding […]