NATSILS Media Release: Abandoning standalone Commonwealth Indigenous Legal Assistance Program after 50 year long commitment threatens self-determination and cultural safety

The National Peak Body for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Services  welcomes the overturning of the planned and ongoing cuts to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Services, introduced in a 2013 ongoing savings measure.

NATSILS Media Release: Independent Review shows Attorney-General must urgently support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Services to end over-incarceration and legal injustices 

NATSILS urges the Attorney-General to take immediate action on the findings of the Government’s Independent Review into the Indigenous Legal Assistance Programme (ILAP). NATSILS welcomes the report and is calling for the Government to overturn impending $10 million in cuts from next year and urgently inject funds to end mass incarceration and legal injustices including housing and child protection.

NATSILS Media Release Closing the Gap on our terms

NATSILS Media Release on co-chair arrangements

NATSILS Media Release: NATSILS welcomes Indigenous Leadership and Partnership for Closing the Gap Refresh 

The National Peak Body for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Services (NATSILS) joining with other Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peak bodies across Australia, w​elcomes today’s announcement that COAG has agreed to a formal partnership approach to the Closing the Gap Refresh.

Joint media release: One year on from the Royal Commission, the NT youth justice system remains broken

Joint Statement from national Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peak agencies on proposed legislative reforms to the NSW statutory child protection system

NATSILS media release: “I need people to help me”: Australia’s international shame of over-incarcerating Aboriginal children

Australia will come under the United Nation’s microscope for its compliance with the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child in February next year.  According to a new report, Australia is on the path to international embarrassment for its treatment of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children.

Joint media release: Action still needed on Deaths in Custody Royal Commission recommendations

Change the Record has questioned the report released by the Minister for Indigenous Affairs Nigel Scullion yesterday, which claims that the majority of recommendations from the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody (RCIADIC) have been implemented.

Joint media release: Continued Federal Government inaction on over-imprisonment recommendations is devastating Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities

A chorus of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander leaders, communities and organisations have called on the Federal Government to provide a formal response to the recommendations contained in the Australian Law Reform Commission’s Pathways to Justice report.