889,800 Australians aged 15 years and over experienced one or more selected personal crimes in 2020-21. The selected crimes included physical, sexual, face-to-face, and non-face-to-face threatened assaults, to name a few.
Nearing towards our 50th year anniversary, SMLS continues to advocate for the rights of refugees and people seeking asylum, as well as celebrate their experiences in Australia
Australia’s new Agriculture Visa Program could lead to a new pathway for exploitation of vulnerable and voiceless migrant workers
SMLS joins with Power2Prevent Statement to urge law reform needed to prevent sexual harassment at work
Decriminalisation of drugs will aid in recognising drug use as a health issue and minimise the harmful stigma associated with its users.
Delays at court due to COVID are having an unintended impact on some of the most vulnerable in our society: victims/survivors of sexual assault.
SMLS utilises a remote legal service with an adaptable framework for client service delivery as well as for educating students about technological advances in legal practice, equipping them with frameworks for the knowledge, skills and attributes for being technologically proficient for their roles as legal practitioners into the future.
Wage gap is a gendered issue. Industries dominated by women usually attract lower pay than male-dominated occupations. This reflects the lower social and financial value given to traditionally ‘female’ jobs.
The government supported an intersectional approach that recognises the compounding effects of vilification on the basis of multiple attributes, such as race and gender. Basically, this means that a person should be able to make a complaint of vilification based on more than one attribute.
We know that for some Afghan refugees and asylum seekers in Australia, our increasingly harmful migration laws have meant that loved ones have died waiting for the chance at a family reunion visa.