Important News.

This year, our team has very sharply felt our clients’ despair, frustration, and fatigue.To say Tasmanians are doing it tough is an understatement and our clients tell us there is no such thing as a fair go these days. It’s a battle just to get the basics all Tasmanians deserve whether it’s a safe place…

Our campaign to end abhorrent guardianship and administration practices has been the longest, largest, and most time, emotion, and labour-intensive campaign for systemic change we have ever undertaken.  So much of the work has been undertaken by employees volunteering their time and hearts, as we are not funded for systemic work of this scale.  But…

Our CEO, Leanne Groombridge, said ‘we’re thrilled that from 265 nominations we have been selected as one of the finalists in the Community Award. This is fabulous recognition of our work, and the team should feel very proud of their achievements. Working for our clients to have their rights restored is what we do day-to-day.…

Far too often, we advocate for people whose lives have been turned entirely upside down by guardianship and administration systems in Tasmania. The people we work for have been subject to immense and regularly state-sanctioned abuse, violence, and neglect through these systems. Their stories are harrowing and cry out for urgent and transformational change.

Ordinary Tasmanians are trapped in the guardianship system every day. Their lives are destroyed. We see it. Every day. There are 31 Tasmanians every week who face the prospect of having their lives taken over by a government appointed Public Guardian, Public Trustee, or both – that’s a massive 1600 applications to the Tribunal in…

The ABC Four Corners ‘State Control’ report exposes the stories of Australians who say they’ve been virtually abducted by the state, stripped of their assets and stopped from speaking out, until now. People under the control of Guardians and the Public Trustee are gagged from speaking out. Journalists who identify them can be criminally charged.…