News & Updates
MEDIA RELEASE 25 January 2021 Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service (VALS) Exercising the right to protest on Invasion Day is a reasonable action in response to the systemic racism and injustices…
MEDIA RELEASE 30 November 2020 VALS Supports a Health Response to Public Intoxication, with Limited Police Involvement and Robust Safeguards VALS acknowledges the tireless advocacy of Tanya Day’s family, and…
Media Release – 25th November 2020 The Government’s Budget that was announced yesterday, which is so generous to Victoria Police, to Corrections and to Youth Justice, fails vulnerable Aboriginal people.…
MEDIA RELEASE 11 November 2020 The Victorian Aboriginal community must not be left behind in the COVID-19 recovery response Today the Victorian Government announced that it is investing $235 million…
MEDIA RELEASE 5 November 2020 Supporting rehabilitation – an important step to address the stigma and discrimination of having a criminal record VALS and the RMIT University Centre for Innovative…
VALS strongly opposes preventative detention forming part of the COVID-19 response VALS emphasises that any deprivation of liberty, even during a public health emergency, must not be arbitrary. The Charter…
MEDIA RELEASE 4 September 2020 Despite it being nearly 30 years since the recommendations were handed down by the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, a further 439 Aboriginal…
The Board of Directors of South East Australian Aboriginal Justice Service Limited (SEAAJSL), trading as the Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service, invites its members to attend the 2019 Annual General Meeting.…
VALS is proud to have joined forces with some of Australia’s leading businesses, sporting bodies and NGO’s to support the “Racism. It stops with me” campaign. The national campaign, which…