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On 1 December 2022, the Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission’s Serious Incident Response Scheme (SIRS) will be extended from residential aged care to include home care and flexible care delivered in a home or community setting.  This means that all providers of home care packages, short-term restorative care at home, Commonwealth Home Support Program, … Continue reading Protection of Older Australians from Abuse and Neglect Extended to Home Care and Flexible Care

Generally, people hold some knowledge about the meaning and application of copyright and what copyright protects. Moral rights, on the other hand, are much less talked about and you might be hard pressed to find a good explanation or definition of those rights.  Typically, moral rights are personal rights that belong to the creator or … Continue reading What Are Moral Rights?

A child, being a person under 18 years of age, has an inherent right to be protected from harm. A child’s family is foremost responsible for the child’s upbringing, protection and development. If a child does not have a parent who is able and willing to offer that protection, the state will take on the … Continue reading Child Protection and the Role of Child Safety

On the international stage, Australia is a signatory to a number of international agreements that include provisions that everyone is entitled to be informed promptly and comprehensively about the nature and cause of the charge against the person in a language that they understand (Article 14 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights).  … Continue reading A Fair Hearing – the Right to an Interpreter during Court Proceedings

While the year 2022 draws to a close, we look back at some of the statistics gathered throughout the last financial year—and what a busy, but simultaneously rewarding, time it was.  Our Client Services team managed to answer 24 353 calls, which equates to an average of 104 calls per day, by clients not always … Continue reading What A Busy Year It Was At Caxton

At all times at Caxton we focus on promoting and protecting our clients’ human rights by overcoming the barriers they experience in accessing justice.  Our human-rights work permeated through all of the programs in the 2021–2022 financial year. For the first time, however, we had the benefit of the Human Rights Act 2019 (Qld) and … Continue reading Making a Difference

Caxton Legal Centre again relied on the invaluable and generous contribution of its loyal volunteers and their incredible commitment to social justice during this last financial year. Without our 160+ volunteer lawyers and law students, we would not have been able to make a difference to the lives of thousands of people who contacted us … Continue reading Volunteering At Its Best

Law reform submission to the parliamentary committee Caxton has joined with the Institute for Urban Indigenous Health Ltd (IUIH) to make a submission to the Queensland Parliamentary Community Support and Services Committee supporting the decriminalisation of public drunkenness, begging and other similar offences. IUIH is a not-for-profit Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community-controlled health service, … Continue reading Decriminalisation of Public Offences

Photo by Michael Schaffler on Unsplash A wet Queensland autumn has left many households and businesses dealing with mildew and mould. Sometimes the solution is a quick clean, but other times removal of mould is a complex problem, and disputes may arise about who cleans or who pays for cleaning.  At work, school or university?  … Continue reading Is Mould a Legal Problem?

Domestic and family violence needs to be everybody’s business. The time has come for a total system overhaul if the Queensland Government wants change. Caxton acknowledges the Queensland Government’s historic announcement, committing a $363 million package to combat domestic abuse. The government’s Women’s Safety and Justice Taskforce (the Taskforce) was established in December 2021 and … Continue reading History in the Making