Community
We care about our Community. We have been associated with numerous professional and business organisations and government bodies at Local, State, Federal and International level. We have used our involvement to learn, network, advise and influence. We have also striven towards making our community a more just place, through voluntary contributions in several areas.
MEMBERSHIPS
Alumni Association Flinders University
Alumni Association University of Adelaide
Alumni Association University of South Australia
Asia Pacific Mediation Forum
Friends of Parks Inc.
Law Society of South Australia
Naval, Military & Air Force Club of South Australia Inc.
South Australian Dispute Resolution Association
Water Industry Alliance
COMMUNITY VOLUNTEERING
Circle of Friends – Refugee Support
From 2004 visiting Baxter Detention Centre at Port Augusta, South Australia with Uniting Church Circle of Friends (http://www.artsa.net/cof/), to support refugees incarcerated in immigration detention. This led to providing long-term accommodation and support to refugees after their release.
Feeding the Needy Project (LCF)
Twice a year Connolly & Co co-ordinates and organises a group of volunteers (judiciary, lawyers, legal staff and their families) who donate, cook, prepare, serve and host a dinner for up to 150 needy and often homeless people at the Magdalene Centre at the rear of St Mary Magdalene’s Anglican Church in Moore Street, Adelaide (http://www.anglicare-sa.org.au/magdalene_centre/).
Otherway Aboriginal Catholic Ministry
Since early 2006 volunteering at the Otherway Centre (www.acc.asn.au) in Pirie Street Adelaide, ‘an outreach service for Aboriginal people, the homeless, and refugees & asylum seekers. It represents the ideal of equality for all, welcoming people no matter their race, religion or circumstance.†It is an extraordinary place where the hungry are always fed, where the homeless are directed to a roof/bed (if only in the short term), Sudanese immigrants meet, and Afghani Shia Moslem refugees, having no mosque in Adelaide, come to pray.
Flinders University Mentorship Scheme
For some years, at the invitation of the University, mentoring law students during their undergraduate years, and sometimes employing them as clerks or paralegals in our firm.
The Smith Family
Under a scheme managed by the Smith Family www.thesmithfamily.com.au to support disadvantaged children and students, mentoring law students throughout undergraduate years, by providing support and friendship.
Friends of Parks Inc
For several years Elizabeth Connolly has been Honorary Solicitor to Friends of Parks incorporated under the Incorporated Associations Act - an amazing network of 5,000 individual volunteers who through groups attached to individual national parks and other heritage institutions, donate thousands of work-hours per year towards preserving the nation’s precious parks and other heritage.