Media Release – VALS Submission to CCYP Inquiry – Our Youth, Our Way
VALS welcomes to the opportunity to provide feedback to the Inquiry of the Commission for Children and Young People (CCYP), Our Youth Our Way, into over-representation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and young people in the youth justice system. Despite numerous inquiries and reviews of the youth justice system in recent years, repeated […]
Media Release – VALS and Robinson Gill Lawyers Joint Media Release: “Significant Supreme Court Win for Victim of Police Brutality”
This is a joint-statement signed by Nerita Waight, Chief Executive Officer of the Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service (VALS) and Jeremy King, Principal Lawyer on behalf of Robinson Gill Lawyers, in response to this morning’s Supreme Court Judgment of Her Honour Justice Richards. Today, Her Honour found that in April 2015 Eathan Cruse was assaulted and […]
Media Release – ”Tireless advocacy by the Day family leads to decriminalisation of public drunkeness.”
The Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service (VALS) welcomes the announcement of the Attorney-General to decriminalise public drunkenness and replace it with a health-based response. A full media statement can be located below.Media Release Media contact:Patrick Warner (pwarner@vals.org.au) and Isabel Robinson (irobinson@vals.org.au)