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  • Energy, Energy and water

ABC News: Consumers decry cap that lets spot Australian power prices rise to highest in world

We joined other energy justice and civil society organisations in calling for fairer power price caps.
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  • Homelessness

JEC wins award for housing and mental ill-health lived experience committee

The Housing and Mental Health Agreement Lived Experience Committee has been recognised for its work at the The Mental Health Service Awards of Australia and New Zealand.
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  • Disability discrimination, Disability rights

2SER: The Continued Need for Aviation Disability Standards

We're acting in a discrimination complaint against Qantas. Senior Solicitor Sheetal Balakrishnan explains why this case shows we need aviation disability standards.
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  • Civil rights, Raise the Age

Bill Crews on 2GB: Jonathon Hunyor on why locking kids up does not work

CEO Jonathon Hunyor explained how ripping kids out of their communities and locking them up harms children and doesn't prevent crime.
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  • Disability discrimination, Disability rights

ABC News TV: People with disability facing inaccessible air travel as reforms drag on

Senior Solicitor Sheetal Balakrishnan spoke about the need for an independent regulator to ensure airline accountability.
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  • Disability discrimination, Disability rights

ABC News: People with disability still dealing with inaccessible air travel as aviation reforms drag on

We're representing Chelsea Hopkins Allan in a discrimination complaint against Qantas that shows the need for disability aviation standards.
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  • Disability discrimination, Disability rights

Qantas debacle leaves woman with disability stranded at Perth airport hours from home

We're representing a woman with disability after a series of errors by Qantas meant she missed flights and put her health at risk.
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  • Civil rights, Policing and detention, Raise the Age

2SER: Crime stats show more kids are being locked up

JEC Solicitor Kate Sinclair joined 2SER to explain why locking up kids isn't working.
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  • First Nations justice, Towards Truth

Anita Heiss shows how storytelling can help drive truth-telling

Anita Heiss spoke to Nicole Abadee about how truth-telling about the law has helped shape her fiction.
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  • Civil rights, Policing and detention

ABC NSW Drive: Jonathon Hunyor on failures of imprisoning children 

Our CEO told ABC NSW Drive the NSW Government must stop locking up children and invest in communities instead.
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  • Civil rights, Policing and detention

NIT: Aboriginal Legal Service calls NSW youth detention surge a ‘wake-up call’

We joined ALS in calling out the failure of the NSW Government's law and order approach to community safety.
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  • Update

New youth detention stats show failure of law and order response

BOCSAR data for the June 2025 quarter shows the NSW Government's law and order response is failing.
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  • Civil rights, Policing and detention

The Guardian: Does a NSW police anti-firearm scheme go too far?

Principal Solicitor Jonathan Hall Spence expressed concerns over the high numbers of Aboriginal people being subject to a little known police search power.
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  • Homelessness

The Guardian: Pari just wants to get a good night’s sleep – but each morning he’s woken by NSW police, telling him to move on

Kira Levin, Principal Solicitor with our Homeless Persons' Legal Service, spoke to the Guardian about the barriers people face to finding safe accommodation.
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