Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Legal Services
National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Legal Services (NATSILS)
NATSILS is the peak body for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Services, representing services in each State and Territory across Australia. NATSILS provides legal advice, assistance, representation, community legal education, advocacy, law reform activities and prisoner through-care to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in contact with the justice system.
For more information and volunteering opportunities see NATSILS. For information on your State/Territory legal service please see below.
State and Territory Services
- Australian Capital Territory / New South Wales – Aboriginal Legal Service NSW/ACT
- Northern Territory – North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency
- Queensland – Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Service Queensland
- South Australia – Aboriginal Legal Rights Movement
- Tasmania – Tasmanian Aboriginal Legal Service
- Victoria – Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service Co-operative
- Western Australia – Aboriginal Legal Service of Western Australia
National Family Violence Prevention Legal Services (FVPLSs)
There are thirteen Family Violence Prevention Legal Services across Australia. FVPLSs provide specialist, culturally safe legal services and support to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander victim/survivors of family violence across Australia.
- New South Wales – Binaal Billa Family Violence Prevention Legal Service, Many Rivers Family Violence Prevention Legal Service, Thiyama-li Family Violence Service Inc. NSW and Warra-Warra Family Violence Prevention Legal Service
- Northern Territory – Central Australian Aboriginal Family Legal Unit (Alice Springs HO) and Ngaanyatjarra Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Women’s Council Domestic and Family Violence Service
- Queensland – Aboriginal Family Legal Service Southern Queensland and Queensland Indigenous Family Violence Legal Service
- South Australia – Family Violence Legal Service Aboriginal Corporation
- Victoria – Djirra
- Western Australia – Aboriginal Family Law Service Western Australia, Marninwarnitkura Family Violence Prevention Unit WA and Southern Aboriginal Corporation Family Violence Prevention Legal Service
- Tri-State Region (NT/SA/WA) – Ngaanyatjarra Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Women’s Council Domestic and Family Violence Service