Monthly Archives: December 2015

Community Law News Summer 2015-16 edition out now

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Community Law News Summer 2015–16 edition is out now at the Federation website. The year has finished with many achievements by the Victorian community legal sector, and some significant challenges – notably the failure of December’s Federal budget update to reverse planned funding cuts to centres, a challenge that will continue into the 2016 Federal Budget as we work with our state and national colleagues to campaign for resources to meet climbing unmet demand for legal help. This issue is packed with news, issues and media – happy holiday reading!

MYEFO fails women who need free legal help with family violence

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The Federal Government’s failure to restore cut funding to the free legal help women desperately need to secure intervention orders through the courts and to face the complex legal issues that flow from violence against women will put them at greater risk, according to the Federation of Community Legal Centres Victoria.

‘September’s Women’s Safety Package failed to make up the massive shortfall from broader Federal cuts to community legal centres, and now MYEFO has failed again as the Federal Government states it is committed to family violence action and a national intervention order scheme,’ said Liana Buchanan, Executive Officer of the Federation of Community Legal Centres today. Continue reading →