Download the invite by clicking here. VALS will be hosting a legal information webinar on Tuesday 3 August 2021, from 1pm to 3pm. We encourage all mob in Victoria to…

Registration Link: tinyurl.com/UVJHoSCDate: Wednesday 11 August 2021Time: 5pm to 6pm ESTLocation: Zoom Download the PDF invite here for biographies on panellists. What is solitary confinement, and how, when and why…

9 July 2021 Yesterday, the Commonwealth Government rejected a raft of recommendations made by UN nations, including recommendations to raise the age of criminal responsibility. With the Commonwealth Government’s leadership…

2 July 2021 Today, the last day of the two-week Coronial Inquest into the death of Raymond Noel, started with a smoking ceremony in the morning, before closing submissions. In…

Joint Media Release7 July 2021 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, legal, human rights and civil liberties organisations have called on the Andrews government to take urgent steps to increase transparency…

JOINT MEDIA RELEASE 1 July 2021    This International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, the Andrews Government must do better on OPCAT Last week, on the same day…

MEDIA RELEASE 1st July 2021 Uniformed Victoria Police attend Coronial Inquest for ‘security’, compounding the grief and trauma of the Thomas Family Quotes Attributable to Uncle Ray, Raymond Noel’s father…

MEDIA RELEASE 24 June 2021Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service (VALS) IBAC’s Special report on corrections: IBAC Operations Rous, Caparra, Nisidia and Molara makes a clear link between the expansion in prison…

Raymond Noel Lindsay Thomas (referred to as “Raymond Noel” for cultural reasons) was a proud Gunnai, Gunditjmara and Wiradjuri man. Raymond Noel died in a police pursuit on 25 June…

Today VALS and more than three dozen human rights and law groups called on the Andrews Government to reform their draconian bail laws. Read the letter here. Find a petition…