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Creating Change
Media Releases and Coverage
Read below to see what our KWILS team have been getting up to in the media.
Katherine frontline services sound alarm over town’s deepening domestic violence crisis, 11 October 2024
Woman killed in NT town’s second suspected DV death since July, 1 October 2024
Legal services raise concerns over NT Police’s mishandling of domestic violence allegation against detective, 24 September 2024
Women’s legal services are at breaking point in the Top End and Big Rivers Regions. We need urgent funding, 28 August 2024
WLSA Media Release regarding Family Law Reforms, 19 October 2023
Domestic violence survivors rendered homeless in Katherine due to lack of crisis accommodation, 12 July 2023
Katherine the least safe place in the country for women, advocates say, 13 July 2023
Katherine lawyers work to reduce barriers to justice in the remote NT amid funding shortage, 18 May 2023
Women’s Legal Service Federal Budget 2023: Focus on gender equality welcome but vital legal support for women experiencing violence missing, 10 May 2023
Katherine women mark International Women’s Day with art, words of advice, 9 March 2023
Katherine reports rise in transient visitors since return of Alice Springs alcohol restrictions, 15 February 2023
WLSA Media Release regarding Proposed Family Law Reforms, 30 January 2023
Katherine community asked to back justice reinvestment project to tackle crime, 2 December 2022
WLSA Media Release regarding the Federal Budget, 26 October 2022
New figures show problem of family and domestic violence growing in Northern Territory, 12 August 2022
Katherine Women’s Legal service running to raise DV awareness, 2 September 2021