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Community legal centres share their impact and policy recommendations with Victorian Attorney-General at a roundtable event

November 28, 2025

Community legal centres share their impact and policy recommendations with Victorian Attorney-General at a roundtable event

On Wednesday, representatives from Victorian community legal centres joined a roundtable event with the Victorian Attorney-General, the Hon Sonya Kilkenny in Melbourne Town Hall.

The roundtable event focussed on the community legal centre’s policy platform, Action for Justice: A Roadmap for Change.

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An Australian first: Prohibiting use of NDAs to conceal sexual harassment in the workplace will improve access to justice for victim survivors

November 21, 2025

An Australian first: Prohibiting use of NDAs to conceal sexual harassment in the workplace will improve access to justice for victim survivors

Victorian community legal centres welcome the Restricting Non-disclosure Agreements (Sexual Harassment at Work) Bill 2025 (Vic) as a significant step towards transparency, accountability and the restoration of dignity for those who have been silenced by confidentiality clauses. 

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Disability sector will become less safe under proposal to undermine regulator

November 14, 2025

Disability sector will become less safe under proposal to undermine regulator

The Social Services Regulation Amendment (Child Safety, Complaints and Worker Regulation) Bill 2025 has passed through the Victorian Lower House, and will be introduced to the Upper House by the end of the year. The bill will transfer functions from the Victorian Disability Worker Commission, which currently provides specialised and independent expertise on a range of issues affecting people with disability and disability workers, to the Social Services Regulator. 

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Community legal centres deplore youth justice sentencing reforms that will make communities less safe

November 12, 2025

Community legal centres deplore youth justice sentencing reforms that will make communities less safe

The Federation of Community Legal Centres strongly opposes the Victorian Government’s proposed youth justice sentencing reforms, which would introduce life sentences for aggravated home invasions and aggravated carjackings, escalate certain cases from the Children’s Court to the County Court, and expose children to adult sentencing powers in the County Court for a number of offences. 

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