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Refugee Advocacy Service Of South Australia
Refugee Advocacy Service of South Australia Inc. (RASSA) is a non-profit Community Legal Centre in South Australia. It was set up in 2002 to represent asylum-seekers in the Federal Court of Australia. From about 2007, it was de-funded and ceased to exist. It has, however, now began functioning again in order to assist asylum-seekers in the community in South Australia whose applications are still being processed. History In April 2002, a group of lawyers from the Woomera Lawyers' Group set up and established the Refugee Advocacy Service of South Australia Inc.. The purpose of the center was to organise and centralise files for the vast number of asylum seekers who had sought, or were seeking, a judicial review of their original decisions in the Federal Court of Australia. RASSA was originally conceived as a clearing house. However, it was not always able to locate appropriate solicitors. It often went on file as the instructing solicitor. Almost all of the work performed by the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Community Legal Centre
A community legal centre (CLC) is the Australian term for an independent not-for-profit organisation providing legal aid services, that is, provision of assistance to people who are unable to afford legal representation and access to the court system. They provide legal advice and traditional casework for free, primarily funded by federal, state and local government. Working with clients who are mostly the most disadvantaged and vulnerable people in Australian society, they also work with other agencies to address related problems, including financial, social and health issues. Their functions may include campaigning for law reform and developing community education programs. The peak body is Community Legal Centres Australia. CLCs are the equivalent of law centres in the UK and community law centres in New Zealand. There are eight Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Services (ATSILS), with similar characteristics to CLCs. There are also eight Legal Aid Commissions ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Woomera Lawyers' Group
Woomera () originally refers to: * Woomera (spear-thrower), an Indigenous Australian spear-throwing tool Woomera may also refer to: Places Australia South Australia * RAAF Woomera Range Complex, a major Australian military and civil aerospace facility and operation **RAAF Base Woomera, an operational Royal Australian Air Force military airbase located within the RAAF Woomera Range Complex ** Woomera Launch Area 5, a rocket launch site on the RAAF Woomera Range Complex *Woomera Immigration Reception and Processing Centre The Woomera Immigration Reception and Processing Centre (IRPC) was an Australian immigration detention facility near the village of Woomera in South Australia. It was opened in November 1999 in response to an increase in unauthorised arriva ... (IRPC), a former immigration detention centre * Woomera, South Australia, a gazetted locality; also known as "Woomera Village" Elsewhere * 11195 Woomera, a main-belt asteroid discovered in 1999 * Woomera (crater ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Three Certified Agreements Case
{{Infobox court case , name=Three certified agreements case, court=Australian Industrial Relations Commission , image=Coat of Arms of Australia.svg , date decided=21 March 2005 , full name=Re: Rural City of Murray Bridge Nursing Employees, ANF (Aged Care) – Enterprise Agreement 2004 (18 March 2005 PR956575). , citations= PR956575, Judges= Guidice, Lawler, Ross, prior actions=', subsequent actions= none , opinions= The case determined what did and did not pertain. It concluded: *Trade union right of entry "pertains to the relationship between employer and employee". *Salary sacrifice "pertains to the relationship between employer and employee". *Setting conditions for employees of labour hire "pertains to the relationship between employer and employee". *Recognition of delegates "pertains to the relationship between employer and employee". *Payroll deductions for union dues "do not pertain to the relationship between employer and employee". * Trade union training lea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Industrial Relations Commission
The Australian Industrial Relations Commission (AIRC), known from 1956 to 1973 as the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission and from 1973 to 1988 as the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission, was a tribunal with powers under the Workplace Relations Act 1996 (and equivalent earlier legislation) that existed from 1956 until 2010. It was the central institution of Australian labour law. The AIRC replaced a previous system of industrial courts, which broadly speaking, was engaged in the same functions, but with superior independence and powers. History Commonwealth Court of Conciliation and Arbitration and the ''Boilermakers'' decision The Commonwealth Court of Conciliation and Arbitration, a court created in 1904 to hear and arbitrate industrial disputes, and to make awards, was abolished in 1956 following the decision of the High Court in '' the Boilermakers' case''. The High Court held that the Court of Conciliation and Arbitration, as a tribunal exe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Workers' Union
The Australian Workers' Union (AWU) is one of Australia's largest and oldest trade unions. It traces its origins to unions founded in the pastoral and mining industries in the 1880s and currently has approximately 80,000 members. It has exercised an outsized influence on the Australian trade union movement and on the Australian Labor Party throughout its history. The AWU is one of the most powerful unions in the Labor Right faction of the Australian Labor Party. Structure The AWU is a national union made up of state branches. Each AWU member belongs to one of six geographic branches. Every four years AWU members elect branch and national officials: National President, the National Secretary, and the National Assistant Secretary. They also elect the National Executive and the Branch Executives which act as the Board of Directors for the union. The AWU's rules are registered with Fair Work Australia and its internal elections are conducted by the Australian Electoral Commission ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Westside Lawyers
West Side or Westside may refer to: Places Canada * West Side, a neighbourhood of Windsor, Ontario * West Side, a neighbourhood of Vancouver, British Columbia United Kingdom * West Side, Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Scotland * Westside, Birmingham England * Westside, Gibraltar United States :''Alphabetical by state'' * Westside, California (other), several places, including: ** Westside (Los Angeles County) ** Westside, Fresno County, California ** West Long Beach, Long Beach * Westside, Jacksonville, Florida * Westside, Georgia * Westside, Atlanta, Georgia * West Side, Chicago, Illinois * Westside (Gary), Indiana * Westside, Iowa * Westside, Baltimore, Maryland * West Side, Wakefield, Massachusetts * West Springfield, Massachusetts * West Side, Manchester, New Hampshire * West Side, Jersey City, New Jersey * West Side, Newark, New Jersey * West Side (Manhattan), New York City, New York * West Side, Binghamton, New York * Westside, Syracuse, New York * West Side, Or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bar Association
A bar association is a professional association of lawyers as generally organized in countries following the Anglo-American types of jurisprudence. The word bar is derived from the old English/European custom of using a physical railing to separate the area in which court business is done from the viewing area for the general public. Some bar associations are responsible for the regulation of the legal profession in their jurisdiction; others are professional organizations dedicated to serving their members; in many cases, they are both. In many Commonwealth jurisdictions, the bar association comprises lawyers who are qualified as barristers or advocates in particular, versus solicitors (see ''bar council''). Membership in bar associations may be mandatory or optional for practicing attorneys, depending on jurisdiction. Etymology The use of the term ''bar'' to mean "the whole body of lawyers, the legal profession" comes ultimately from English custom. In the early 16th century ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laos
Laos (, ''Lāo'' )), officially the Lao People's Democratic Republic ( Lao: ສາທາລະນະລັດ ປະຊາທິປະໄຕ ປະຊາຊົນລາວ, French: République démocratique populaire lao), is a socialist state and the only landlocked country in Southeast Asia. At the heart of the Indochinese Peninsula, Laos is bordered by Myanmar and China to the northwest, Vietnam to the east, Cambodia to the southeast, and Thailand to the west and southwest. Its capital and largest city is Vientiane. Present-day Laos traces its historic and cultural identity to Lan Xang, which existed from the 14th century to the 18th century as one of the largest kingdoms in Southeast Asia. Because of its central geographical location in Southeast Asia, the kingdom became a hub for overland trade and became wealthy economically and culturally. After a period of internal conflict, Lan Xang broke into three separate kingdoms: Luang Phrabang, Vientiane and Champasak. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
