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Delivering professional, culturally proficient and community sensitive

Legal services

Working with community, government and non government stakeholders.

Criminal, Family and Civil Law.

ThroughCare, Community Legal Education,

Deaths in custody monitoring & 24/7 assistance at police stations.

Services.

The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Service works together with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, key government and non-government stakeholders to manage the delivery of services in a professional, culturally competent and community-sensitive manner.

Our criminal, civil and family law services are delivered to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people throughout Queensland.

Key Areas of Service Delivery

  • Criminal Law representation and advice
  • Family Law representation and advice
  • Civil Law representation and advice
  • Prisoner ThroughCare Services to address recidivism
  • Law Reform and Community Legal Education
  • Coronial and Public Sector Monitoring
  • 24 hour assistance at police stations

Means Test

With limited resources available and to ensure we direct our services towards applicants in the greatest need of assistance, all applications for Indigenous legal services involving casework are subject to means and merit tests. Depending upon the results of these tests, applicants will fall into one of three categories:

  1. Applicants eligible to receive free legal assistance.
  2. Applicants eligible to receive legal assistance subject to payment of contributions (on a sliding scale) towards the cost of assistance.
  3. Applicants not eligible to receive legal aid assistance

An applicant automatically satisfies the means test if one of the following applies:

  1. They are under the age of 18.
  2. Their main source of income comes from CDEP participant wages or Centrelink benefits.
  3. Their gross personal income is less than $46,000 per annum ($885 per week).

Note: Means testing only applies to Casework matters.

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👏🏾👏🏾 @LindaBurneyMP commits federal leadership to work with states & territories to #RaiseTheAge!

We must raise the age to *at least 14 years* to keep very young children out of the criminal system and give them the help & support they need to thrive.
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Have you joined the campaign yet? raisetheage.org.au/c… #RaiseTheAge twitter.com/SophieTr…

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Amazing words from First Nations woman Antoinette Braybrook, Co-Chair of @Change_Record & CEO of @DjirraVIC for @IndigenousX "What we need now is the political will to hand back the power that governments took from us and put us in the driver’s seat." ✊🏿 ow.ly/JgYM50JxFNC

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News and Events

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