Aboriginal Law Bulletin; Alternative Law Journal --- "News Notices: Publications; National Women's Peace Camp; Lois O'Donoghue Reappointed ATSIC Chair" [1995] AboriginalLawB 22; (1995) 3(72) Aboriginal Law Bulletin 49

• Notices
• Publications
• Volunteer's Guide For Young Lawyers
• Justice For People With Disabilities
• Legal Issues In Management
• Fitzroy Legal Service Handbook
• National Women’s Peace Camp
• Invitation To Legal Workers
• Lois O’donoghue Reappointed Atsic Chair

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Notices

Publications

Volunteer's Guide for Young Lawyers

The Volunteer's Guide for Young Lawyers (September 1994) has been published by the Communities Issues Committee of the Young Lawyers' Section of the. Law Institute of Victoria. This Guide is available for anybody who is interested in volunteering to help at one (or more) of the many community organisations in Victoria which require the help of lawyers or people with legal training or simply an interest in legal issues. It summarises the details of many community legal centres and other bodies, including a brief description of the role of volunteers at these centres, times at which they are required, and the extent of the commitment expected of them. The Guide includes a locality index to the centres, and indexes listing centres seeking evening volunteers, day volunteers, those which require bilingual volunteers, and those where non-legally qualified volunteers are sought.

Cost: Free

Contact: Alison Mead of the LIV Young Lawyers' Section, tel [phone]

470 Bourke Street, Melbourne, GPO Box 263C, Melbourne 3001

Justice for People with Disabilities

The Villamanta Publishing Service has recently published Oliver Twist Has Asked For More - The Politics and Practice of Getting Justice for People with Disabilities. The book is intended for people concerned with the unfair ways people with disabilities are treated in Australia and who are seeking to change this. The book explores power and the reasons why people with disabilities are often without it.

Contact: Richard Coverdale tel. [phone] fax [phone]

Legal Issues in Management

Two publications have been recently published jointly by the Management Improvement Advisory Committee and the Management Advisory Board. Legal Issues a Guide for Policy Development and Administration is a guide for public service managers to identify legal issues in the work context and understand their implications. The second book, Delegated Authority Handbook, focuses on legal issues in policy development and administration, particularly where managers exercise statutory powers.

Both booklets are available from Commonwealth Government bookshops and by contacting the AGPS on tel [phone] or fax [phone].

Fitzroy Legal Service Handbook

The 1995 Law Handbook, a practical guide to the law in Victoria suitable for use in community legal centres and by non-lawyers, is now available from Fiztroy Legal Service, for $45.00.

Contact: Fitzroy Legal Service P.O. Box 280 Fitzroy 3065 tel. [phone] fax. [phone]

National Women’s Peace Camp

Australian Defence Industries Munitions Factory

Benalla, North East Victoria, Easter, 14-16 April 1995

Invitation to legal workers

The New Australian Defence Industries munitions factory at Benalla has been chosen as the site of a national women's peace action which will take place over Easter 1995.

ADI is a government-owned, profit-oriented company which makes weapons including rifles, machine guns, rockets, and a wide range of ammunition. It is part of the Australian Government's drive to increase arms exports, particularly in the Asia Pacific region. Equipment and parts made by ADI are being used in this region in places including East Timor and Bougainville. The current restructuring of ADI will produce a massive cut in jobs within the company and consolidate ADI's ammunition manufacturing in a single factory: at Benalla.

Undoubtedly some of the women involved in the action will take this opportunity to express their commitment to ending militarism and other forms of violence by taking arrestable nonviolent direct action. Therefore, the organising collective is planning to provide legal information and support for activists attending the action both in Benalla, and in regional centres before and after Easter.

We are keen to make contact with legal workers (law students, lawyers, paralegal workers, legal academics and others involved in working. with and challenging the law) who may wish to come to Benalla or to be part of providing accessible legal information and support for the action in other ways.

For more information about the action contact Clare Cole [phone].

For more information about being part of legal support for the action please contact Mary Heath, PO Box 458 Eastwood 5063, tel [phone] (h), [phone] (wk), or email: [e-mail]

Lois O’Donoghue Reappointed ATSIC Chair

Ms Lois O'Donoghue CBE AM has been reappointed Chairperson of the Aboriginal and Tones Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC). Ms O'Donoghue's appointment as a Commissioner and Chairperson has been extended until the next Board of Commissioners is elected after ATSIC regional council elections due in December 1996.

The ATSIC Board of Commissioners currently consists of 17 ATSIC Regional Councillors elected as Commissioners in zone elections and two people selected by the Minister for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs. The Minister also selects and appoints the chairperson.

Under reforms to operate from the next ATSIC elections, the Board will consist solely of 17 elected Commissioners and the Chairperson will be elected by the Board.