About ARC Justice

ARC Justice is a rights-based, social justice organisation incorporating the Loddon Campaspe Community Legal Centre and Housing Justice, a specialist renter support program based in Bendigo, and the Goulburn Valley Community Legal Centre, based in Shepparton.

ARC provides legal and tenancy support services across 13 local government areas in central and northern Victoria, with a team of almost 70 staff working to advocate for and uphold the rights of rural and regional Victorians.

Our purpose

We exist so rights are known and acted upon, and communities are fairer. ‍

Our role‍

Our principles

Holistic self-determination - We focus on the whole person and the whole of a problem as a way of finding more healthy and sustainable solutions to legal issues and work with them to see a just outcome. 
Safe and rights-based - We recognise human rights and freedoms as legally enforceable and give priority to people in the most marginalised or vulnerable situations who face the biggest barriers to realising their rights.  ‍
Systemic - We aim to create wider positive effects on a group or system, arising from our work with individuals and communities.

Our programs

Loddon Campaspe Community Legal Centre is based in Bendigo and provides free legal information, advice and representation to people living in central Victoria.

Goulburn Valley Community Legal Centre is based in Shepparton and provides free legal information, advice and representation to people living in northern and north-east Victoria.

Housing Justice stands up for the rights of tenants, helping them to solve their tenancy problems and stay in their rental homes.

Our communities & clients‍

We work with people in regional and rural Victoria who experience disadvantage relating to their housing, family, relationship, consumer, economic, social and civil rights. We walk with First Nations people and communities.