Open letter to Attorneys-General: a call for nation-wide leadership to keep children safe in childcare
Call for Australia’s Attorneys-General and their ministerial colleagues in governments across Australia to demonstrate nation-wide leadership to keep children safe in childcare.
‘Our people deserve more’: disappointment as Prime Minister walks away from opportunity for truth-telling at Garma
Knowmore stands with First Nations communities in calling on the Australian Government to urgently progress a national truth-telling process to address past and ongoing injustices experienced by First Nations peoples.
Territories & Stolen Generations Redress Scheme and Remote Communities: Knowmore Legal Service’s Northern Australia Strategy
With GARMA coming up in August, Knowmore Legal Service reflects on our Northern Australia Strategy and our commitment to providing access to free legal advice for redress matters in remote and rural communities.
‘Some measure of justice’: Knowmore welcomes WA Stolen Generations Redress Scheme announcement
Knowmore Legal Service welcomes the Western Australian Government’s announcement today that it will establish a redress scheme for Stolen Generations survivors in the state.
Knowmore Legal Service Supports Claim Farming Practices Prohibition Bill 2025
Knowmore Legal Service supports the NSW Claim Farming Practices Prohibition Bill 2025.
“Running out of time”: Cross-party report urges government to ensure the future of redress for child sexual abuse survivors
Knowmore welcomes the unanimous report of the Australian Parliament’s Joint Standing Committee on the National Redress Scheme.
Burney blazed a trail for First Nations
Few First Nations leaders can claim to have achieved as much as outgoing Minister Linda Burney. News of the Minister’s departure from politics has triggered an outpouring of gratitude from individuals and organisations across Australia. knowmore Legal Staff have similarly joined this chorus in expressing their appreciation of
Media Release: National Commissioner for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children will bring critical change
Knowmore looks forward to working with the new National Commissioner for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children and helping to improve the lives of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children. “Supporting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people is a pillar of Knowmore’s work and we are excited to
Survivors targeted by unethical lawyers
Knowmore is seeing a dramatic increase in claim farming cases and warns all survivors to be careful.
Have you settled your legal dispute out of court for sexual abuse you suffered in institutional or state care in your childhood?
Griffith University is conducting research to understand survivors’ experience of resolving their civil compensation legal disputes, to understand what survivors’ needs are when it comes to settling out of court. The research is seeking to understand survivors’ experience in mediation or a settlement conference, and their thoughts and
Supports to victims of crime “difficult to access” say victim-survivor groups
“The changes to Victims Support mean that many victim-survivors of violence in NSW don’t have access to the support they have a right to and need,” says Arlia Fleming, Chair, Community Legal Centres NSW.
A message to knowmore clients from Director of Client Services Amanda Whelan
A video message to Knowmore clients from Director of Client Services Amanda Whelan in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.