Abstract

The efforts of South Australia's Aboriginal Legal Rights Movement (ALRM), 1971-1978 to provide legal aid to Aborigines are discussed. The 1972/73 Budget provided $57,300 for extension of the three existing legal services for Aborigines. One of the services to receive financial support was the recently established (ALRM) in South Australia. As had been the case in New South Wales, ALRM 'was set up because Aboriginal people were complaining about the way they were being treated in society and also by the police'.

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