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Current legal issues presented by the Federation of Community Legal Centres, giving an alternative view of proposed legislation changes.
Episodes
- Wirraway – Police and Prison Accountability
Boni is joined by Clare, Serena and Ella who are all lawyers from the Wirraway Practice at the Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service to talk about police and prison accountability work, and what they are seeing on the ground as Victoria’s bai…
- Sam Sowerwine and Miles Browne on NDIS reform
Sam Sowerwine and Miles Browne join Boni on the show to talk about NDIS reform. Sam is the Associate Director and Miles the Managing Lawyer of the Economic and Social Rights Program at Victoria Legal Aid. Sam and Miles helpfully run us thr…
- Sarah Sacher on Tech-Enabled Surveillance in the Workplace
Sarah Sacher joins Jimi and Boni to talk about a recent report published by the Human Technology Institute on the use of tech-enabled sureveillance tools, including AI, in the workplace. Sarah is a Senior Responsible Techonology Policy Spe…
- Eric Hayward on Invasion Day, Truth & Treaty
Jimi and Boni sit down with Eric Hayward, a Wudjari/Kaneang Noongar Elder, Historian at the University of Western Australia, and Truth Teller about Western Australia's Black colonial history.Eric discusses his reflections on Invasion Day,…
- Victoria's Treaty & First Peoples' Assembly of Victoria
Jimi sits down with Nerita Waight, a proud Yorta Yorta and Narrandjeri woman, the CEO of the Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service and a member of Victoria’s First Peoples' Assembly.In October, a landmark Bill passed through the Victorian Par…
- Lived experience: Disability advocacy
Jimi sits down with prominent disability advocate Uli Cartwright, an incredible individual who has faced numerous hurdles in the journey to sharing his story. Uli discusses his documentary 'Life is a Battlefied', currently on SBS On Demand…
- Your Rights at Work
There are many different situations in which people can find themselves unfairlytreated at work or sacked from their employment. In today’s show we are going to belooking at a few of those situations and the different rights, support, and…
- Lived Experience: Compulsory Mental Health Treatment
Every day in Victoria, people are subject to compulsory treatment orders. Those subject to these orders lose many of their rights and freedoms and are treated even where they do not agree. These processes have stripped people of their auto…
- Youthlaw - Legal support for out of home care leavers
Beth is joined by Youthlaw Lawyer & Legal Pod Program Coordinator, Scarlett Trewavis, to discuss Youthlaw’s innovative Legal Pod Program, the only legal program in the state working with out of home care leavers to resolve legal issues tha…
- Betia Shakiba - Iranians in Australia
Betia Shakiba is an Iranian refugee, human rights advocate and a solicitor at the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre. Betia has long advocated for an improvement in the treatment of asylum seekers, calling for reduced barriers to seeking asylum…
- Lived experience: Post-release
Here on Done By Law we are typically talking to people who work in the law. But in this episode, we’re gaining insight from a man who has been subject to it.Earlier this year, Ronin was released from prison. His experiences both inside and…
- PSOs: Their Powers, Your Rights.
Protective Services Officers, or PSOs have existed in Australia since the late 1980s. Their role was significantly expanded in 2012.As many of our listeners will be aware, PSO are armed, uniformed officers who pop up at train stations, pro…
- YACVic & Youthlaw - Affirmative consent education
A warning that this show includes discussion of sexual violence.Beth King, Education & Training Lawyer at Youthlaw, is joined by Laura Crozier, Affirmative Consent Project Officer with the Youth Affairs Council Victoria ('YACVic'), to disc…
- Gender Affirming Care for Transgender Youth
This episode discusses gender-affirming care for transgender young people. We might mention suicide and self-harm. Listeners are advised.At the end of January this year, Federal Health Minister Mark Butler announced a review into healthcar…
- Rights Advocacy Project - Reforming Victoria Police's Stop and Search Powers
Jimi is joined by two researchers at Liberty Victoria's Rights Advocacy Project, Britney Aguirre & Denham Sadler. They join the show to discuss their recently published report 'Unreasonable Grounds: Reforming Victoria Police’s stop and sea…
- Human Rights Law Centre - Refugee law in Australia
Jimi is joined by Sanmati Verma, Principal Lawyer of Human Rights Law Centre, to discuss recent developments in migration law in Australia and the harsh legislative regimes imposed upon refugees, asylum seekers and stateless peoples in thi…
- About Time
This episode Jimi and Britt chat with Rosie Heselev from About Time Media who publish a fantastic newspaper written almost entirely by incarcerated people called About Time. Rosie is the Managing Director of About Time. She previously work…
- Eric Hayward - Inquiry into Australia’s youth justice and incarceration system
Jimi is joined by Eric Hayward to unpack his submission, on behalf of the West Australian Greens First Nations Committee, to the Senate Standing Committee on Australia’s Youth Justice and Incarceration System; an ongoing inquiry which is d…
- Melbourne Activist Legal Service - Disrupt Land Forces
Jimi and Aurora are joined by barrister Adam Chernok from Melbourne Activist Legal Service. They discuss legal protections for activists and police powers in light of the recent Disrupt Land Forces anti-war protests.
- Federation of CLCs - CLCs funding crisis
Community Legal Centres or CLCs have formed a critical part of Australia’s legal assistance landscape since before the state legal aid offices even existed. Yet they regularly have had to battle for sufficient funding to continue to provid…
- Afifeh Saeidavi - Refugee protests
Jimi is joined by Afifeh Saeidavi, an Iranian Arab woman who came to Australia in 2012 with her family. Afifeh is one of more than 10,000 refugees who have been ignored and left in indefinite limbo for over 10 years due to Australia's fail…
- Fitzroy Legal Service - Medical Cannabis & Driving Offences
On this episode, Aurora & Jimi are joined by Amity Mara, Manager of Policy in the Social Action and Public Interest Law team at Fitzroy Legal Service. Amity joins us to discuss drug driving offences for medical cannabis patients. Under cur…
- Environmental Justice Australia - Dingoes
We’re talking about the Dingo! Aurora & Jimi are joined by Mera Sivanesan from Environmental Justice Australia to discuss the cultural and ecological significance of dingoes, and the efforts EJA are undertaking to protect them.
- Environmental Justice Australia
On this episode, we speak with Laura Dreyfus and Danya Jacobs of the Ecosystem team from Environmental Justice Australia. Among many legal battles, they are currently putting their efforts into assisting the Dungallaba Kulumbirigin clan of…
- Barriers to Accessing Family Violence Intervention Order Online Processes
***A warning to our listeners, this episode discusses family violence, family violence intervention orders, and gendered violence.*** This week Northern Community Legal Centre released two research reports examining the use of different on…
- Infringements Working Group - Jo & Shifrah
Jimi & Liz are joined by Jo Parkin & Shifrah Blustein of the Infringements Working Group to give us the lay of the legal land for those finding themselves in a sticky situation when it comes to fines and infringements. A community legal ce…
- Women's Legal Service Victoria
Co-hosts Jimi & Lizzie are joined by Jess de Vries, Director of Legal Services at Women's Legal Service Victoria, to discuss a number of the incredible efforts undertaken by the WLSV team across the State. Whether discussing family law, cr…
- Apryl Day - Health based response to public intoxication
In this episode of Done By Law we discuss the decriminalisation of public intoxication legislation in Victoria and the implementation of the new alternative health-based response. First recommended by the Royal Commission into Aborigi…
- Gambling Harm
Lauren Levin of Financial Counselling Australia joins Jimi & Britt to discuss the hidden epidemic of gambling harm in Australia.
- Health Justice Partnership
Listeners please be advised that in this episode we discuss topics including family and domestic violence, sexual assault, and mental ill health. In this episode we hear about Health Justice Partnership from CEO of Health Justice Australia…
- Robodebt Report
Amy Schneider from Economic Justice Australia joins hosts Britt & Jimi in their discussion of the recent Robodebt report.
- Save Sorry Business
This special week is NAIDOC week, a week in which we celebrate the history, culture and achievements of First Nations people. This episode, we are very lucky to have Mrs. Bettina Cooper on our show who we pay respect to.Mrs. Bettina Cooper…
- Tenant's Rights and the Current Housing Crisis
Housing has become an increasingly desperate situation for so many in the community, and renters are often the most vulnerable and at risk of poverty and homelessness. The current private tenancy rates are sitting well below 1% in many par…
- Reconciliation Week & the Voice to Parliament: Myth-busting the Chatter
It’s National Reconciliation Week, and we’re all talking about the Voice to Parliament for First Nations Australians.There’s a lot of myths swirling around about this proposed change to our Federal Constitution. So, this episode of Done by…
- The ANZAC myth in the 21st century
In this episode of Done by Law, Ingrid and Beth look at the ANZAC legend and its 21st Century legacy – a century during which Australia has continued to participate in foreign conflicts (with allegations of serious war crimes committed aga…
- Current Issues in Economic Justice
Lizzy, Jimmy and Britt talk to Sarah Sacher, Law Reform Officer at Economic Justice Australia about some of the big issues in social security law currently, including changes to the couples assessment, the AAT, and ongoing issues with Robo…
- Environmental Justice Australia - Decolonising environmental justice
In this episode of Done By Law we explore the concept of decolonising environmental justice, and discuss its application to the work of Environmental Justice Australia, a national environmentally-focused public interest legal centre. We ar…
- Renters Rights and Renters and Housing Union (RAHU)
Dylan and Indy speak with Eirene Tsolidis Noyce about renter's rights, the 'rental crisis', and RAHU.Learn more about RAHU here: https://rahu.org.au/
- Gerard Brody - access to justice hero
This week on Done by Law our very special guest is a true access to justice hero - Gerard Brody. After 10 years as CEO of Consumer Action law Centre, Gerard is stepping away from his role. Listen in as Gerard looks back over his incredible…
- Debunking 'de-banking' - financial discrimination in the sex industry
· Beth and Ingrid look at the issue of de-banking and the impact on people working in the sex industry and in adjacent professions such as stripping. We look at the draft guidance from AUSTRAC on financial services for customers that finan…
- Specialist Family Violence Courts
This week on Done by Law we chat about Specialist Family Violence Courts. Why are they needed? What do they look like? Why aren't these in place already?Listen in to Belinda Lo from Eastern Community Legal Centre, and Rachel Pliner from th…
- Cultural competence in First Nations cases
In this episode, we explore the issue of the cultural competency of legal practitioners appearing in matters involving First Nations clients - and in discussing the rights of First Nations people coming before the courts. We talk about wha…
- Is the family law system broken and how do we fix it?
- Women's Lived Experience in Decarceration & Carceral Resistance
In this episode of Done By Law we feature audio from the wonderful seminar ‘Women’s Lived Experience in Decarceration and Carceral Resistance’, held on Monday 24 October 2022 at the Wheeler Centre in Melbourne.This evening of discussion, r…
- Foreign judges in the Pacific
In this show, we are looking at the phenomenon of using foreign judges in Pacific states in light of the constitutional crisis currently faced by the Pacific state of Kiribati, which has sprung from the suspension of a number of foreign ju…
- Affirmative Consent
Dylan and Jeremie interview Dr Rachael Burgin, lecturer in criminal justice and criminology at Swinburne Law School and the CEO of Rape and Sexual Assault Research and Advocacy (RASARA), and Shaun Ginsbourg, experienced trial and appellate…
- UN oversight of Victorian prisons & the ‘OPCAT’
- Mortgage Stress and the Law
Prior to the recent interest rate increase, there was an alarming number of Victorians that were in mortgage stress. About half (44%) of Victorian households with a mortgage were in mortgage stress in late March 2022. Eight of the top 12 p…
- Young People and Mandatory Sentencing
Indy and Jeremie discuss working with young people and mandatory sentencing schemes with Angus from Westjustice and Tim from YouthlawWEstjustice is a community organisation that provides free legal help to people in the Western suburbs of…
- Advertising Sex Work and the Law
On 10 May 2022, a raft of sex work specific advertising criminal laws were repealed in Victoria. This relaxation of advertising laws is the first set of sex industry law changes following the passage of the Sex Work Decriminalisation Act 2…