The Aboriginal Legal Service in Redfern predated Fitzroy Legal Service (‘FLS’), and the history of the Indigenous legal service movement intersects at times with the broader CLC movement. However, it also follows its own clear and quite different trajectory and for this reason should be treated as separate from the wider movement and deserving of full-length treatment in its own right. Our research suggests that FLS was the first non-Aboriginal CLC (or free legal service, as they were known in the early days), although, as outlined later in this article, there are other claimants to the title.
2.
PeacockSue, ‘LIV Celebrating 150 years,’Law Institute Journal (2009) 83, 3.
3.
PeelMark, Interview with Peter Gordon (Melbourne, 30 September 2008).
4.
ScottDavid, ‘An Outsider's View of Legal Centres,’ in NealDavid (ed), On Tap, Not on Top: Legal Centres in Australia, 1972–1982 (Legal Service Bulletin, 1984) 32; ChestermanJohn, Poverty, Law and Social Change: The Story of the Fitzroy Legal Service (MUP, 1996) 4.
5.
GreenwoodKerry, It seemed like a good idea at the time: A history of Springvale Legal Service 1973–1993 (Springvale LS, 1994) 1–3.
McCullochJude, Interview with Remy van de Wiel (Melbourne, 26 February 2009).
10.
Economic Opportunity Act 1964 s 201, US Code 595.
11.
Johnson's Economic Opportunity Act 1964 contained flexible provisions allowing the establishment of neighbourhood law offices in the poorest areas.
12.
McCulloch, Interview with Julian Gardner (Melbourne, 30 September 2008).
13.
NealDavid, Interview with Phil Molan, in Neal (ed), On Tap, Not on Top: Legal Centres in Australia 1972–1982 (LSB, 1984), 61.
14.
McCulloch, above n 9.
15.
That the US provided the model for Australia is often incorrectly assumed. See, eg, ZemansFrederick H. and ThomasAneurin, ‘Can community clinics survive? A comparative study of law centres in Australia, Ontario and England’, in Regan (eds), The transformation of legal aid: Comparative and historical studies (OUP, 1999) 65.
16.
HorneDonald, Time of hope: Australia 1966–72 (A&R, 1980) 42.
17.
Fitzroy Legal Service, Legal Service Bulletin (1974) 1(2) 2–3.
18.
Greenwood, above n 5.
19.
ErlichsterVictoria, From Humble Beginnings: A Brief History of Peninsula Community Legal Centre 1977–2007 (2007) 7.
20.
YorkBarry, ‘Baiting the tiger: Police and protest during the Vietnam War,’ in FinnaneMark (ed), Policing in Australia: Historical perspectives (UNSW Press, 1987) 170, 171–173.
GersterRobin and BassettJan, Seizures of youth: The sixties and Australia (Hyland House, 1991) 43.
23.
See Horne, above n 16. In particular, see Ch 3 on the protest movements.
24.
McCulloch, Interview with Judith Peirce (Melbourne, 7 May 2009).
25.
McCulloch, Interview with Mary Anne Noone (Melbourne, 4 November 2009).
26.
McCulloch, above n 12.
27.
McCulloch, Interview with Gary Sullivan (Melbourne, 16 September 2008).
28.
York, above n 20, 171.
29.
York, above n 20, 171.
30.
Neal, Interview with Geoff Eames, in Neal, above n 13, 56–7. See also FaineJon, Interview with Geoff Eames, in Faine, Lawyers in the Alice: Aboriginals and Whitefellas' Law (Federation Press, 1993) 45, 46–50.
SextonMichael and MaherLaurence W, The Legal Mystique: The role of lawyers in Australian society (A&R, 1982)8.
33.
Greenwood, above n 5, 3.
34.
McCulloch, Interview with Peter Faris (Melbourne, 24 February 2009).
35.
Sexton and Maher, above n 32, 29.
36.
ScuttJocelynne, Women and the Law: Commentary and materials (Law Book, 1990) 31.
37.
McCulloch, above n 24.
38.
McCulloch, above n 25.
39.
McCulloch, above n 24.
40.
McCulloch, Interview with Barbara Shalit (Melbourne, 24 February 2009).
41.
McCulloch, above n 12.
42.
McCulloch, above n 12.
43.
McCulloch, Interview with Dick Gross (Melbourne, 24 September 2008).
44.
McCulloch, above n 9.
45.
In June 1973, Labor Attorney-General Lionel Murphy gave FLS a small grant. In September 1974, FLS received $20 000 from the federal government. Chesterman, above n 4, 6.
