Law reform

Help us campaign for law reform

At Community Legal WA we understand the law is always evolving.

As the peak body for community legal centres in WA, our work includes advocating for changes to the law and the legal systems that impact negatively on the people our centres help.

Below are the law reform campaigns we are supporting.

You can support these campaigns too! Click on campaigns below to see how you can help.

Law reform submissions:

Submission to Joint Select Committee on Australia's Family Law System: Inquiry into Australia's Family Law System - December 2019

Submission to the WA Government: 10 Year Strategy for Reducing Family and Domestic Violence - June 2019

Local Government Act Review. Rates and Financial Hardship - (Submission by Financial Counselling Network - March 2019)

Make Renting Fair WA

Community Legal WA is a supporter of the 'Make Renting Fair in WA' campaign. Read more

For more than two years we have been working with a coalition of community groups and Social Reinvestment WA, to urge the State Government to implement law reform to stop people being jailed because they are unable to pay their fines. Read more

Accessibility

BUDGET 2020: A missed opportunity to fund avalanche of legal problems

Ending imprisonment for unpaid fines

After months of consultation with MPs across political parties, Community Legal WA celebrated with campaign organisers and supporting MPs as new legislation passed the WA Parliament to provide common sense alternatives to prison for people unable to pay their fines.

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PRIVACY POLICY - Community Legal WA is committed to protecting and upholding the right to privacy of members, staff, volunteers, Executive Committee members and representatives of other agencies, in the way Community Legal WA collects, stores and uses information about them and the services Community Legal WA provides to them.