Abbreviations

Abbreviations

AAT

Administrative Appeals Tribunal

ADR

alternative dispute resolution

AIJA

Australian Institute of Judicial Administration

AJAC

Aboriginal Justice Advisory Committee

ALAO

Australian Legal Aid Office

ALRC

Australian Law Reform Commission

ALRM

Australian Legal Rights Movement

ANAO

Australian National Audit Office

ATSIC

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission

ATSILS

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Services

ATSIS

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Services

CCLCG

Combined Community Legal Centres Group of New South Wales

CDEP

Community Development Employment Project

CLCs

Community Legal Centres

COALS

Coalition for Aboriginal Legal Services NSW

CPD

DIMIA

continuing professional development

Department of Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs

EDO

Environmental Defenders Office

Exposure Draft

'Exposure Draft of a Request for Tender for the Purchase of Legal Services for Indigenous Australians'

Family Law Act

Family Law Act 1975 (Cth)

IAAAS

Immigration Advice and Application Assistance Scheme

IARC

Immigration Advice and Rights Centre

LACs

legal aid commissions

Managing Justice

Australian Law Reform Commission, Managing Justice A Review of the Federal Justice System, Report No 89, 2000

MARA

NACLC

Migration Agents Registration Authority

National Association of Community Legal Centres

NCSMC

National Council of Single Mothers and their Children

NLA

National Legal Aid

NNIWLS

National Network of Indigenous Women's Legal Services

NNWLS

National Network of Womens Legal Services

NTLAC

PDR

Northern Territory Legal Aid Commission

primary dispute resolution

PILCH

Public Interest Law Clearing House

PILCH HPLC

Homeless Persons Legal Clinic

the Program

Community Legal Service Program

QAILS

Queensland Association of Independent Legal Services

RACS

Refugee Advice and Casework Service

RRR

rural, regional and remote

Second Report

Senate Legal and Constitutional References Committee, Inquiry into the Australian Legal Aid System, Second Report, June 1997

TIS

Commonwealth Translating and Interpreter Service

TPV

Temporary Protection Visa

Third Report

Senate Legal and Constitutional References Committee, Inquiry into the Australian Legal Aid System, Third Report, June 1998

VALS

VLA

Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service

Victoria Legal Aid