Australian Law Reform Commission, Equality Before the Law: Justice for Women Part I, and Equality Before the Law: Women's Equality Part II, Report No 69, AGPS, 1994.
2.
More information about NWJC and the AVCWL can be found at their website <http://www.nwjc.org.au/>.
3.
ALRC, Part II, above, ref 1, Ch 11.
4.
See the article by RawsthorneMargot, ‘Law by Telecommunications — The Magic Solution for Rural Australians’ elsewhere in this issue.
5.
AlstonMargaret, ‘Rural Women's Access to Legal Services’, Through Our Eyes Conference Paper, Albury, June 2000.
6.
Scoping Study — The Scope for Delivery of legal Services to Regional, Rural and Remote Australia via Telecommunications Channels, Attorney-General's Department, July 1999, p.28, in CoatesR., ‘Current Legal Aid Service Provision in Rural Australia’, Through Our Eyes Conference Paper, Albury, June 2000.
7.
Alston, above, ref 5.
8.
Alston, above, ref 5.
9.
Coates, above, ref 6, p.12 citing Equality Before the Law: Women's Access to the Legal System, p.36; Australian Law Reform Commission, Managing Justice; A Review of the Federal Civil Justice System Report No 89, AGPS, 2000, p.330; and Rush Social Research Agency & John Walker Consulting Services, Legal Assistance Needs Project: Phase 2, Summary Report, Commonwealth Attorney-General's Department, May 1999, pp.30, 33 & 34.
10.
The Australian Legal Assistance Forum (ALAF) was formed in 1998 and is a coalition of the major organisations providing legal aid services in Australia. These organisations are National Legal Aid, the Law Council of Australia, representatives of the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Services Secretariat; and the National Association of Community Legal Centres.
11.
Coates, above, ref 6, p.13.
12.
The agencies included in Coates' research were Legal Aid Commissions, legal aid funded private practitioners, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Services and community legal centres.
13.
KatzenHayley, ‘Domestic Violence and Police’, Through Our Eyes Conference Paper, Albury, June 2000.
14.
Alston above, ref 5, p.4.
15.
This is explained in the article by GiddingsHook and Nielsen, elsewhere in this issue.
16.
Coates, above, ref 6, p.14.
17.
Legal Services in Family Law, Justice Research Centre, May 2000 p.120, as cited in Coates, above, ref 6, p.14.
18.
HardyJenny, ‘Mandatory Sentencing — impact on imprisonment rates of women in the NT’, Through Our Eyes Conference Paper, Albury, June 2000.
19.
ALRC, Part I, p 56, cited by Coates, above, ref 6.
20.
Katzen, above, ref 13.
21.
Domestic Violence in Regional Australia — a Literature Review, A report for the Commonwealth Department of Transport and Regional Services prepared by the Women's Services Network Commonwealth of Australia, June 2000.
22.
National Women's Non-Government Organisations Funding Programme, the Office of the Status of Women, Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet.
