Australian Law Reform Commission, Equality before the law: justice for women, 69 Sydney, 1994, .
The report makes recommendations on strengthening the Sex Discrimination Act, access to legal aid, specialist women's legal services, court support schemes and court facilities and processes, and violence against women in relation to family law, immigration law and criminal law.
Women's Legal Resources Centre, Quarter way to equal: a report on barriers to access to legal services for migrant women, Law Foundation of New South Wales, Sydney, 1994.
This study aimed to identify the legal needs of newly arrived migrant and refugee women and to assess their knowledge of available legal services and their ability to access these services. The main legal needs were found to be family law, domestic violence and immigration. Other identified needs were housing, social security and employment. The research included consultations with over 90 key informants in migrant and refugee women's services and legal service providers; and group interviews with a total of 35 women from five groups of recent arrivals : Arabic speaking, Central and South American, Filipino, Turkish and Vietnamese. A review of the access and equity policies of key legal service providers was also undertaken.
