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Women's Legal Service Tasmania Inc

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21.01.2022 Come along to our last Sheffield Clinic of the year on 23 November 2020. No need to RSVP - see you there!

20.01.2022 While these tragedies often appear to an outside observer to be "out of the blue," they are often the result of years of coercive control exercised over the victim. "Michael said physical abuse "occurred fortnightly if not weekly", but it was his father's intrinsic sense of entitlement, manifesting itself as control, that Michael considers being the primary red flag upon reflection." https://www.examiner.com.au//the-biggest-tragedy-buildin/

18.01.2022 https://www.examiner.com.au//womens-legal-plight-woes-hi/

16.01.2022 Coercive control is a hidden form of domestic violence; a pattern of controlling, intimidating and manipulative behaviours. The February issue of Marie Claire Australia shared nine women’s experiences and insights of coercive control. We support the criminalisation of coercive control! Sign the petition to make coercive control a criminal offence: https://www.nowtolove.com.au//criminalise-coercive-control ... #coercivecontrol #criminalisecoercivecontrol #marieclaireau

16.01.2022 WLST is hiring! We are currently recruiting a solicitor for our office in Launceston. Interested in applying, or know someone who might be? Click through the link to find out more. https://www.seek.com.au/job/51284320

15.01.2022 Tune in at 1pm tomorrow (Friday) to hear Elise talk about emotional control - see you then!

15.01.2022 Our offices will be closed from 5pm today and will reopen on Monday the 4th of January, 2021. We wish everyone an enjoyable and safe holiday season! If you or someone you know is in immediate danger, please call 000.

12.01.2022 Christmas and Safety

12.01.2022 Today is the United Nations Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, and today we partnered with Engender Equality to deliver a 3-hour bystander workshop session in Launceston at the Albert Hall. The workshop session was for community members to explore and discuss what we can each do to contribute to reducing violence against women in our communities. We support the Our Watch campaign that Doing Nothing Does Harm. We all must do something when we see violence a...gainst women. How we help will look different for different people in different contexts - the only wrong thing to do is to do nothing. Our Mentoring Violence Prevention free sessions provide a safe space for people to explore what the options might be, and give people the chance to practice some new ways of responding. Everyone will have a different way of responding and that is okay - we are all different and have different contributions. Would you like to know more and challenge yourself to try a new strategy to address abuse in our communities? https://www.doingnothingdoesharm.org.au/support/

12.01.2022 Mission Australia is holding a free lunch this Friday for members of the northern suburbs community. You can ring or text to confirm your order until 3pm tomorrow, and pick up at Chigwell House, between 1pm and 1:30pm on Friday.

09.01.2022 In this video, Elise will talk about emotional abuse.

09.01.2022 Do you think hearing other women talk about their experience with the legal system could prepare you in a way a lawyer might not? We do. We’ve created a brand new podcast with Penny Terry from Healthy Tasmania that brings together the stories from women, support services and from lawyers, to help you get the best from the legal system we’ve got. The whole series has JUST LAUNCHED and we’d love you to have a listen and share. Click through to listen now or search for Rule of Thumb via your usual podcast app.

08.01.2022 Binding Financial Agreements - the pros, cons, and what is required to make them legally binding.

08.01.2022 While Tasmania is the only state to include emotional and economic abuse within family violence laws, WLST chief executive Yvette Cehtel said coercive control needed to be criminalised more broadly. https://www.examiner.com.au//time-to-change-family-viole/

05.01.2022 Hobart Principal Solicitor, Deb, discusses how Our Service is focused on providing access to justice for Tasmanian women

04.01.2022 Ali from our Hobart office will be holding her monthly legal clinic at Tagari Lia tomorrow between 9:30am - 12:30pm. Drop-ins welcome!

03.01.2022 Find out how to apply for Victims of Crime compensation.

02.01.2022 Family violence thrives in darkness. Thank you to our local paper The Examiner Newspaper, Launceston and their journalists for helping to shine light on it. https://www.facebook.com/132603530106114/posts/3920873837945712/?d=n

02.01.2022 Tomorrow at 1pm, we will be talking about the positives and negatives of getting a binding financial agreement. See you then!