Advocacy

NAAJA's Advocacy Unit conducts a range of activities including research, community legal education, communications and media and promoting change on a number of systemic justice issues affecting Aboriginal people in the Top End of the Northern Territory.

Some recent submissions by NAAJA are:

• Northern Territory Emergency Response
• School Attendance Trials linked to Income
• Domestic and Family Violence
• Mandatory reporting of Domestic Violence
• Convictions that do not need to be disclosed or Spent Convictions  
• Proposed changes to CDEP
• Family Assistance Bill
• Access to justice 
• The Queen v Wunungmurra NT Supreme Court 9 June 2009

Some recent issues and events:

• Ngukurr Mutual Respect Agreement

                    NAAJA and CAALAS Advocacy meeting March 2009