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Exclusive: Families and Aboriginal Legal Service raise concerns over lockdowns at Hakea Prison
Eliana received a hurried phone call from her brother inside Hakea Prison in Per...
Natasha Clark 24 Feb 2026
CCC review sparks police dog changes in WA
Warning: This article contains an image of wounds sustained by a child attacked...
Giovanni Torre 10 Feb 2026
So much power and so much wealth, but no action to help WA's most vulnerable people
The Cook Government was returned to power in March this year after obliterating...
Wayne Nannup 8 Oct 2025
Recommendations from inquest into fatal police shooting of JC can't "sit on a shelf gathering dust", advocates warn
Bernadette Clarke, the sister of JC – the 29-year-old Ngarlawangga Yamatji Martu...
Giovanni Torre 3 Jul 2025
EXCLUSIVE: WA government backs Aboriginal Legal Service with funds to keep service running after office fire

The Western Australian government has approved a $250,000 payment for the Aboriginal Legal Service of WA to support the continuation of services after fire destroyed its office on Aberdeen Street in B...

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Jun 16, 2025
ALS slams WA government's "tawdry political move to garner votes" with youth bail changes

The Aboriginal Legal Service of Western Australia says the state government's proposed youth bail changes will undermine the administration of justice, increase the likelihood of children being impris...

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Jan 10, 2025
Aboriginal Legal Service lodges complaint with WA Police Commissioner after children arrested at rehabilitation program

The Aboriginal Legal Service of WA has written to the state's police commissioner over the arrest of three boys while the youth were participating in a rehabilitation program.

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Nov 25, 2024
WA Police target Indigenous youth rehabilitation event, arresting three boys in front of other children

Police arrived without warning at a youth rehabilitation event co-run by the Aboriginal Legal Service of WA with five cars, arresting three boys participating in the program on Thursday.

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Nov 14, 2024
Aboriginal Legal Service WA calls for federal action on Western Australia's youth justice crisis

The Aboriginal Legal Service of WA has called for urgent action by the federal government to address the crisis facing Western Australia's youth justice system and the basic human rights being denied...

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Oct 17, 2024
Lidia Thorpe slams "smoke and mirrors" federal funding announcement for legal services

Senator Lidia Thorpe has expressed disappointment at the legal assistance package put forward by the National Cabinet, saying without further funding, legal services will continue to struggle to meet...

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Sep 9, 2024
Aboriginal Legal Service WA slams minister's resistance to systemic change after death in custody

The Aboriginal Legal Service of Western Australia says it was "devastated" to learn of the passing of the young boy overnight after he was found unresponsive in his cell at Banksia Hill Detention Cent...

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Aug 30, 2024
Aboriginal Legal Service never heard back from Department after asking why Cleveland Dodd was moved to Unit 18, inquest reveals

Children in the notorious Unit 18 of Casuarina Prison are subject to racist comments and staff are ill-equipped to deal with young people, a hearing into the death of an Indigenous child has heard.

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Jul 22, 2024
Founding member and inaugural chairman of the Kimberley Land Council, Mr Chulung, passes away

The Kimberley Land Council has acknowledged the sad passing of founding member and inaugural Chairman Mr Chulung, and extended their sincere condolences to his family.

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Jul 17, 2024
Family of Cleveland Dodd "dismayed and disappointed" by CCC findings on his death in custody

The mother of Cleveland Dodd is "dismayed and disappointed" that prison staff were cleared of serious misconduct over her son's death by WA's Corruption and Crime Commission.

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Jun 12, 2024
Indigenous children as young as 11 strip searched by NSW police

A new report has outlined an alarming tendency by New South Wales police to strip search children, with Indigenous kids as young as 11 being subjected to the procedure over the past seven years.

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Mar 19, 2024
Aboriginal Legal Service WA wins Law category at Australian Human Rights Commission Awards

The Aboriginal Legal Service of Western Australia has been honoured at the 2023 Australian Human Rights Commission Awards, winning the Law Award.

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Dec 8, 2023
Senior guard slept as Cleveland Dodd attempted suicide, reports reveal as ALS slams Minister's "new low"

An ABC investigation has revealed that the senior officer on duty the night Cleveland Dodd attempted to end his life was lying down in his office with the lights off, partially undressed, when the Ind...

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Nov 9, 2023
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