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When To Get An Advance Health Directive

by Belinda Tyrrell | Mar 24, 2021 | Uncategorized

Plan for the Best, in National Advance Care Planning Week It’s National Advance Care Planning Week, and all Australians are being encouraged to make their future health care preferences known – not matter what their age or health status. As Kathleen Wincen,...

TASC welcomes Aged Care Royal Commission call for greater advocacy and legal supports in aged care

by Belinda Tyrrell | Mar 5, 2021 | Uncategorized

TASC is welcoming calls made by the Aged Care Royal Commission for more advocacy and complaints mechanisms in the aged care sector. “Abuse happens in regional facilities and in the community,” said TASC CEO Frances Klaassen OAM. “That’s what our experience running...

Ten Years On, TASC Celebrates A Landmark Legal Decision

by Belinda Tyrrell | Feb 15, 2021 | Uncategorized

Ten Years On, TASC Celebrates A Landmark Legal Decision Ten years ago, TASC was involved in a landmark legal decision, still widely known as the “Avery Case”. A decade later, we’re celebrating this important ruling, which led to people with disability getting a fairer...

TASC Holiday Hours

by Belinda Tyrrell | Dec 23, 2020 | Uncategorized

TASC offices are closed over the Christmas and New Year break from 4pm 24 December 2020. Our offices in Toowoomba, Ipswich and Roma will reopen ready to provide free legal and advocacy services across South West Queensland, from 9am on Monday 4 January 2021. If you...

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TASC is funded by government to help people in Toowoomba, Ipswich, Roma and surrounding areas get access to justice and free legal and advocacy advice.

Our priorities are to help people who are on a low income, in financial hardship or other vulnerable situations like needing information on domestic violence orders.

We run specific services for senior people facing elder abuse, people renting in Queensland, people with disability and individuals with mental illness.

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