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Legal information: many topics
Discrimination

Victims of crime

Legal rights
Immigration and refugees

Youth

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Legal information: many topics

Diversity Services
NSW Lawlink
Diversity Services web site provides access and equity information on the Department of Justice and Attorney General's services for people with disabilities and people from culturally and linguistically diverse communities.

Arabic Chinese Vietnamese

The role of the interpreter information sheet is translated in the following languages.

Dinka Greek Italian Korean Persian Samoan
Serbian Spanish Thai Turkish    

Find Legal Answers
State Library of New South Wales
Legal resources available in over 40 languages

Arabic Assyrian Bengali Bosnian Cambodian Cantonese
Chinese Croatian Dari Dinka English Farsi
Fijian Filipino French German Greek Hindi
Indonesian Italian Japanese Khmer Korean Kurdish
Laotian Macedonian Malay Maltese Persian Polish
Portuguese Russian Samoan Serbian Singalese Somali
Spanish Swahili Tagalog Tamil Thai Tongan
Turkish Urdu Vietnamese      

Legal information for deaf people
Deaf Society of NSW
Online information available in Auslan

Justice translations
Department of Justice, Victoria
Publications of the Department of Justice which are available for download in over 20 languages

Albanian Amharic Arabic Assyrian Bosnian Chinese
Croatian Dari Greek Indonesian Italian Khmer
Macedonian Samoan Serbian Somali Spanish Tagalog
Thai Tigrinya Turkish Urdu Vietnamese

 

Legal rights

You have privacy rights
Privacy Victoria

Translated factsheet in 26 languages to raise the awareness of Victorians about the importance of protecting their privacy, and to make them aware of their privacy rights

Amharic Arabic Bosnian Cambodian Chinese Croatian
Dari Dinka English Greek Hindi Hungarian
Indonesian Italian Macedonian Maltese Persian Polish
Russian Serbian Sinhalese Somali Spanish Tamil
Tigrinya Turkish Vietnamese      

Multicultural translations
Queensland Obudsman
Information about the Ombudsman in the languages listed below:

Ahmaric Arabic Chinese Croatian Dari Dinka (Sudanese)
Persian Samoan Somali Spanish Turkish Vietnamese

Your legal rights: a practical guide to everyday legal issues
Western Suburbs Legal Service
A series of factsheets in English, Karen and Burmese. Topics covered include the legal system and the law in relation to money, driving, renting, family and the police.

Victims of crime

Victim Assist Queensland
Queensland Government Justice Gateway
Multilingual information available online about Victim Assist Queensland and also what to do if you are a victim of crime in Queensland. Translations covered include

Arabic Bosnian Chinese Croatian Filipino Hindi
Japanese Polish PNG Pidgin Serbian Spanish Tagalog
Thai Torres Strait Islander Creole Vietnamese      

Victims of crime
Department of Justice, Victoria
Translations in over 30 languages covering topics such as reporting a crime, support services , intervention orders and financial assistance

Amharic Arabic Burmese Chin Chinese Croatian
Dari Dinka Farsi Greek Hindi Italian
Japanese Karen Khmer Kurdish Macedonian Nuer
Oromo Pashto Persian Serbian Somali Spanish
Swahili Tagalog Tamil Tigrinya Turkish Urdu
Vietnamese          

Walking through the courts
Redfern Legal Centre
Fact sheets on getting an Apprehended Violence Order (AVO) in NSW

Arabic Chinese English Spanish Vietnamese

Discrimination

Multilingual brochure poster
NSW Anti Discrimination Board
This brochure provides simple information about anti-discrimination law in English and 14 community languages

Arabic Armenian Chinese Croatian Dari Greek
Hindi Italian Khmer Korean Macedonian Portuguese
Serbian Spanish Turkish Vietnamese    

Family Law

Victoria Legal Aid

Family law in Australia fact sheets. Some of the topics are:

  • The first step: getting help to reach agreement with the other parent
  • Separation and divorce
  • After you have separated: making arrangements about the children
  • Dividing property after you have separated
Amharic Arabic Bosnian Chinese Croatian Dari
Dinka Filipino Greek Hindi Italian Khmer
Korean Macedonian Malaysian Persian Polish Russian
Serbian Somali Spanish Thai Tigrinya Turkish
Ukrainian Urdu Vietnamese      

 

Immigration law and refugees

Refugee and Immigration Legal Service (RAILS )
Provides free legal assistance in immigration and refugee cases to people in need. 20 topics are available on the site in Arabic, Chinese, Dari, and Vietnamese

Youth

Centre for Multicultural Youth (CMY)
Comprehensive guide for young people on the laws in Australia. Contact CMY for hard copies

Arabic Bosnian Burmese  Chinese (hard copy only) Croatian  
Dari  English Farsi  Serbian ( hardcopy only Somali .
Tamil Vietnamese ( hard copy only)