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Community Legal Centres South Australian Inc. (CLCSA) is the peak body for all Community Legal Centres in South Australia. [46] There is a network of centres which are allocated to different zones across the state, [ 47 ] as well as specialist services which focus on areas such as homelessness , Aboriginal family violence, asylum seekers, women ...
Freedom of religion in Australia is allowed in practice and protected to varying degrees through the constitution and legislation at the Federal, state and territory level. [1] [2] Australia is a pluralist country with legislated principle of state neutrality and with no state religion.
Kingsford Legal Centre receives funding from the Community Legal Services Programme of the New South Wales Legal Aid Commission, [1] the Commonwealth of Australia through the Attorney-General's Department (Commonwealth Community Legal Services Program, Clinical Legal Education and Family Law) [4] [5] [6] and the University of New South Wales ...
Its legal institutions and traditions are substantially derived from that of the English legal system, which superseded Indigenous Australian customary law during colonisation. [1] Australia is a common-law jurisdiction, its court system having originated in the common law system of English law. The country's common law is the same across the ...
The euthanasia advocacy group YourLastRight.com [129] is the peak organisation nationally representing the "Dying with Dignity" associations of Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania, [130] as well as the South Australian Voluntary Euthanasia Society (SAVES), [131] the Western Australian Voluntary Euthanasia Society (WAVES) [132 ...
Human rights in Australia have largely been developed by the democratically elected Australian Parliament through laws in specific contexts (rather than a stand-alone, abstract bill of rights) and safeguarded by such institutions as the independent judiciary and the High Court, which implement common law, the Australian Constitution, and various other laws of Australia and its states and ...
The poverty and legal injustices suffered by Aboriginal people in the area were a contributing factor in the founders becoming involved in legal representation and advocacy for them; in 1969 Aboriginal people constituted 25% of the prison population in Western Australia, while being only 2.5% of the population.
The Constitutional history of Australia is the history of Australia's foundational legal principles. Australia's legal origins as a nation state began in the colonial era, with the reception of English law and the lack of any regard to existing Indigenous legal structures.