JEC updates
Updates on Justice and Equity Centre events, work and community.
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Social Justice Dinner 2025: celebrating the power of our community
Our guest speaker Cassandra Goldie reflected on the need to fight for social justice and build empathy.
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LSJ: Minns government dangerously disregards anti-LGBTIQ+ hatred
JEC Director of Policy and Advocacy, Alastair Lawrie, explains how the NSW Government’s hate crime laws fail to protect LGBTIQ+ people.
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Our vision for social justice in 2025
We have a bold vision for a fairer Australia in 2025. We will fight discrimination and injustice, and promote reforms to policing, immigration detention and energy systems.
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‘Enough is enough’: Aboriginal communities take child protection reform into their own hands after years of government inaction
Reflecting on five years of inaction since the Family Is Culture Review, Aboriginal organisations are calling for urgent and meaningful reform.
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Oliver Williams, Justice and Equity Centre Aboriginal Social Justice Graduate, wins Ngalaya award
Oliver described his pride at receiving the award and his ambition to achieve First Nations justice.
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Pro Bono Australia: Tackling injustice through reforming the law
Principal Solicitor Jonathan Hall Spence spoke to Pro Bono Australia about his career and his work at the Centre.
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Changing our name to the Justice and Equity Centre
We have changed our name to better reflect our mission: to build a fairer, stronger society by challenging laws and practices that cause disadvantage and inequality.
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LSJ: PIAC rebrand – A new name for a fairer, stronger society
The Law Society journal covered our renaming to the Justice and Equity Centre.
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Lawyers Weekly Show: A check-in on various social justice issues across Australia
CEO Jonathon Hunyor spoke to The Lawyers Weekly Show about the state of social justice legal work in Australia.
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Australian laws still allow schools to sack gay teachers
Excerpt from Q News: Laws allowing religious schools to sack teachers on the basis of their sexuality or gender identity should be repealed, advocates say, as Brisbane’s Citipointe Christian College is back in the news. … The Public Interest Advocacy Centre also said the NSW government must scrap the state’s own “broad and outdated” exemptions…