Please note that our offices are closed for the long weekend from Friday 18 April and will reopen on Tuesday 22 April. During this time, you can check our website for general information. If you are experiencing an emergency or crisis during this time, please refer to the following support services for immediate assistance: Emergency: 000 Police (Non-Emergency Inquiry): 131 …

In exciting news at Women’s Legal Service WA, we are looking for someone to take on the role of Fundraising & Partnerships Manager, an integral position in the WLSWA leadership team. The right candidate will play a vital role in ensuring financial sustainability and driving growth for WLSWA. ➡️ View the job description here ⬅️   The Fundraising & Partnerships Manager …

  Please note that our offices will be closed from 23 December 2024 at 4:30 PM and reopen on 2 January 2025 at 8:30 AM. We hope that you have a restful and safe holiday period and we look forward to our return in the new year. If you are experiencing an emergency or crisis during this time, please refer …

In August 2024, Women’s Legal Service WA joined with our loud and long champions of Working Women’s Centres to celebrate the inaugural establishment of a WA Centre, which Women’s Legal Service WA and Circle Green Community Legal are proud to be partnering to deliver. We are grateful to Janine Freeman, Helen Creed, and Sharryn Jackson for their planning of this …

Women’s Legal Service WA is looking for experienced family lawyers to assist with its monthly Property Law Clinic. We are an accredited not-for-profit community legal centre that provides legal services to women across Western Australia, prioritising women experiencing family, domestic and sexual violence. Our volunteer Property Clinic lawyers come from private practice across Western Australia, offering one-off telephone family law …

Women’s Legal Service WA’s CEO Jennie Gray joined this week’s The Law Report on ABC Radio National where the conversation was about much needed reforms to sexual violence in Australia. The interview was hosted by internationally renowned author (and previously human rights lawyer) Suzie Miller, whose text Prima Facie has proved incredibly important for raising awareness about the barriers to …

Monday 5 August marked the start of National Homelessness Week, with the 2024 theme of Homelessness Action Now. Homelessness, and the significant risk to safety this poses, is one the most prevalent adversities that the women that Women’s Legal Service WA work with are facing. With new stats from REIWA showing that WA’s median house price has risen 11.3% since …

The Albanese Government funds Working Women’s Centres across the country. Working Women’s Centres (WWC) have been funded in every state and territory to assist women who are experiencing sexual harassment, discrimination and other workplace issues. The Albanese Government has funded established centres (South Australia, Queensland and Northern Territory) and women’s legal centres, community legal centres, unions and workers’ compensation services …

Media release / Sunday 5 May 2024 National peak body Women’s Legal Services Australia released their research report into the non-payment of child support as a form of economic abuse of Australian women. The non-payment of child support is a deeply gendered issue and remains an unrecognised form of economic abuse by many Australian Government agencies and financial institutions. The …

Women’s Legal Service Australia have released our literature review on the non-payment and underpayment of child support as economic abuse against women and children. The literature reveals extensive evidence of the way fathers are using child support as a weapon to perpetrate ongoing gendered violence against mothers. Urgent reforms are needed to ensure fathers cannot continue to avoid paying child …