Policy and law reform
NAAJA contributes to law and policy reform by making submissions and appearing as witnesses in inquiries and consultation processes regarding justice issues in the Northern Territory. This includes law and policy areas directly impacting our clients and broader government policy including housing, employment and welfare, youth detention, alcohol, and health.
Our work in making submissions and appearing as witnesses:
- draws on the authority and cultural authority of an Aboriginal community-controlled organisation
- is consistent with our meaningful commitment to developing cultural competency
- connects with the input of experts, professionals, and front-line workers across our criminal, youth, and civil law practices and programs such as throughcare and community legal education.
NAAJA also contributes to a significant number of committees and consultation processes for external bodies including legal professional bodies, government agencies, and law reform bodies.
A list of NAAJA submissions
- Submission—Domestic and Family Violence and Victims Legislation Amendment Bill 2025, 4 April 2025
- Submission—Attorney-General Legislation Amendment Bill 2025, 28 March 2025
- Submission—Inquiry into Australia’s youth justice and incarceration system, 10 October 2024
- Submission—Inquiry into compulsory income management, 10 May 2024
- Submission—NT Police review, December 2023
- Submission—NAAJA Independent review of the NLAP, 2023
- Submission—Inquiry into Murdered and Not Missing First Nations Women and Children, December 2022
- Submission—Inquiry into community safety, support services and job opportunities in the NT, November 2022
- Submission—Review of the legislation and justice response to domestic and family violence, November 2022
- Submission—NAAJA appendix 1 Community Justice Program groups sub DFV review, September 2022
- Submission—Discussion paper for the Mental Health and Related Services Act 1998 review, June 2021
- Submission—Mandatory Sentencing and Community – Based Sentencing Options, November 2020
- Submission—Social Security – Administration Amendment – Income Management to Cashless Debit Card Transition – Bill 2019 Cth – Part 2, 30 October 2020
- Submission—Committee’s Inquiry into food pricing and food security in remote Indigenous communities, 27 October 2020
- Submission—Draft Aboriginal Justice Agreement, April 2020
- Submission—Senate Community Affairs References Committee Inquiry Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD), December 2019
- Submission—Social Security – Administration Amendment – Income Management to Cashless Debit Card Transition – Bill 2019 Cth – Part 1, 21 October 2019
- Submission—Liquor Bill, June 2019
- APO NT / NAAJA—Joint Report to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, 1 November 2018
- FASD: A Justice Perspective by Priscilla Atkins, 31 May 2018
- Closing Speech—Top End FASD Forum by John Rawnsley, 31 May 2018
- Submission—Modernisation of the Anti Discrimination Act, February 2018