Mirrung Ngu Wanjarri (Aboriginal Women Making Changes)
Mirrung has been a funded project since June 2000. The project is to raise awareness about family violence in Aboriginal communities by raising self awareeness and self-confidence in Aboriginal women and to work on strategies for improving outomes for families experiencing violence. Nancy Walke is the project worker. Nancy works in partnership with Aboriginal communities and othr service providers. Mirrung is currently funded by the Commonwealth Department of Family and Commuinity Services and Indigenous Affairs.
Aboriginal Legal Access Program
The Aboriginal Legal Access Program has ben extended until June 2014 and will be undertaking the following tasks:
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plan and develop formal legal neds consultation process with five Bundjalung communities, commence review of and update the 1998 Mabourah Dubay Access to Law Report's findings and track the current state of Bunkjalung communities' access to the law and to legal services
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provide outreach services to two Bundjulung communities for a half a day per week
Animal Law & Education Project
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Lismore Family Relationships Centre/NRCLC Legal Assistance Partnership
The Northern Rivers Community Legal Centre is the legal assistance partner for clients of the Lismore Family Relantionships Centre who need family law advice about children's matters.
Free family law advice is provided to clients referred by the FRC to the solicitor employed by this project. In certain circumstances, where the relevant family dispute resolution practitioner who is assisting parents who have separtated considers that a legally assisted family dispute resolution is appropriate, the solicitor participates in the family dispute resolution providing advice to one of the parents. The project partners can arrange for the other parent to also be represented by a solicitor from another project.
Funding for the project is provided by the Australian Government Attorney-General's Department.