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In March 2024, the Aboriginal Legal Service NSW/ACT (‘ALS’) launched a new system for handling phone calls from prisons. This system is designed to provide help faster and more smoothly.
If you are an Aboriginal person in a NSW prison, you can still reach the ALS on the same CADL list number: #12. In the ACT, dial 6120 8800.
Your call will be answered by a new team of ALS staff dedicated to answering prison calls. This team is called the Inmate Referral and Advice Service. They are available Monday to Friday, 9am – 5pm. If you call outside of business hours, you can leave a voicemail.
If your question is about your current criminal law case, you will be transferred to the ALS office that is running your case. If the team can’t reach the ALS office or lawyer you need right away, they will send an email with your message.
There is also a solicitor available who can provide information and referrals, advice and some legal assistance to Aboriginal people in custody.
For example, you can call if you have a question about:
So if you are an Aboriginal inmate in NSW or the ACT and you have a legal problem, call the ALS.
In March 2024, the Aboriginal Legal Service NSW/ACT (‘ALS’) launched a new system for handling phone calls from prisons. This system is designed to provide help faster and more smoothly.
If you are an Aboriginal person in a NSW prison, you can still reach the ALS on the same CADL list number: #12. In the ACT, dial 6120 8800.
Your call will be answered by a new team of ALS staff dedicated to answering prison calls. This team is called the Inmate Referral and Advice Service. They are available Monday to Friday, 9am – 5pm. If you call outside of business hours, you can leave a voicemail.
If your question is about your current criminal law case, you will be transferred to the ALS office that is running your case. If the team can’t reach the ALS office or lawyer you need right away, they will send an email with your message.
There is also a solicitor available who can provide information and referrals, advice and some legal assistance to Aboriginal people in custody.
For example, you can call if you have a question about:
So if you are an Aboriginal inmate in NSW or the ACT and you have a legal problem, call the ALS.
The Torch is an organisation that assists incarcerated Indigenous artists to reconnect with culture and produce art. The torch supports hundreds of incarcerated artists, helping to promote and sell their artwork. This edition of About Time includes several beautiful artworks purchased from the Torch.
Hello, my name is Ngarra Murray. I’m a Wamba Wamba, Yorta Yorta, Dhudhuroa and Dja Dja Wurrung woman based in Melbourne on Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung Country.
I’m one of the Co-chairs of the First Peoples’ Assembly of Victoria alongside Gunditjmara man Rueben Berg. We sit on the Assembly together with 31 other Traditional Owners elected by their communities.
While the right to self-determination remains undefined under international law, it can best be described as the right of a ‘people’ to collectively exercise control over, and make decisions regarding, matters that affect them. It is the right of a 'people' to determine their destiny.
Since 2011, The Torch has been providing art, cultural and arts industry support to Indigenous offenders and ex-offenders in Victoria through its Indigenous Arts in Prisons and Community program.
About Time Media acknowledges the traditional owners of the lands across Australia and particularly acknowledges the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nation, traditional owners of the land on which About Time Media is based.
We acknowledge the continuing impacts of the criminal legal system on First Nations people, including disproportionate rates of incarceration and deaths in custody, which remain a national shame.
We pay deep respect to Elders past and present, and all families of those who have lost loved ones in prison.
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