Last week in Canberra TASC Community Development Coordinator and long-term disability advocate Sue Gordon was awarded one of Australia’s most prestigious awards, the Minister’s Lifelong Achievement Award. “It was a wonderful privilege to receive the award and of course to really illuminate the cutting edge work of TASC and its Queensland Criminal Justice Centre,” Sue [...]
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TASC CEO and Queensland Criminal Justice Centre (QCJC) Director Dan Toombs and QCJC Researcher Andrew Caple will be presenting individually at the Australian Institute of Judicial Administration (AIJA) Conference in Auckland in February. “It’s a wonderful privilege to not only be presenting at such an esteemed conference, but to have two representatives from TASC presenting [...]
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Community Development Coordinator Sue Gordon is dead-set keen on instigating Australia’s first youth court, a court completely facilitated by youth. “Youth Courts have been used very effectively in the United States with strong evidence to suggest that peer orientated courts can be far more effective in dealing with slight offences or behavioural issues within the [...]
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In this game, when it rains it pours! TASC Seniors Legal and Support Service Solicitor Justin Barker and Social Worker Gillian Mason-Johnson have been flat to the boards rolling out the service to Ipswich and the West Moreton. The service focuses on financial and and other forms of abuse abuse of seniors in our community. [...]
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TASC has been asked to be involved in a round-table meeting with the Queensland Attorney General Cameron Dick MP and Minister for Disability Services Annastacia Palaszczuk MP to map out potential interventions to minimise the endemic numbers of disabled people within the Queensland criminal justice system. “We’ve spearheaded the most successful intervention in reducing recidivism [...]
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TASC CEO Dan Toombs on behalf of the Queensland Government and National Disability Services recently facilitated a workshop for Managers working within the community sector. The session titled, “How to innovate when you can’t,” provided tips on incubating a creative culture within your organisation and provided some insight into the reason that TASC has become [...]
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A recent meeting between CEO Dan Toombs, TASC Consultant Retired Supreme Court Judge Ken Mackenzie QC and various heads of QUT, including the Executive Dean of the Law Faculty Michael Lavarch have agreed to form a joint working party to instigate an initiative that in part will address the diminishing provision of legal services in [...]
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New approaches to supporting Queensland’s most vulnerable people were discussed at the Combined Advocacy Groups Queensland (CAGQ) Conference in Toowoomba in July (14th & 15th). The conference, themed “Advocacy into the future”, included addresses from Disability Services Queensland Regional Manager Marie New, the Adult Guardian Dianne Pendergast, former Public Advocate Ian Boardman and Queensland Criminal [...]
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What a pleasure it was to recently appoint Gillian Mason-Johnson as a Social Worker with TASC. Gillian of course established TASC, or the Toowoomba Community Legal Service back in 1982. I have a newspaper print of Gillian dated 1983, standing shoulder to shoulder with Mark Orchard and Steve Rees, committee members then and still to [...]
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TASC’s Sue Gordon has been named as a 2009 Australian Disability Award Finalist. At the special invite of Minister Jenny Macklin and Bill Shorten MP, Sue will travel to Canberra later next month. “This is such a well-deserved nomination. Sue over many years has made such an incredible investment in the lives of countless disabled [...]
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