Governance

RAJA is governed through a collaborative model designed to reflect the diverse regional communities it represents.

Member organisations retain their own governance structures while participating in RAJA’s shared governance arrangements.

RAJA’s governance framework supports:

  • collective leadership across regions
  • transparent decision-making
  • accountability to member organisations and communities
  • alignment with regional priorities and cultural governance principles


A board comprising representatives from member organisations provides strategic oversight, ensuring RAJA’s work remains grounded in regional experience and community context.

RAJA also works alongside sector partners, policy stakeholders and government agencies to support coordinated justice reform.

Our Purpose, Vision and Mission

We enable access to justice for rural, regional and remote communities of Western Australia. 
We are Social Justice Pioneers that will continually find new ways to enhance the services our clients and communities receive. We will continue to ensure the lens in which we operate remains place based and community informed

Vision:

Strong, collaborative and sustainable access to social justice in rural, regional and remote areas of Western Australia, that leverages our collective strength and ensures consistency of service for our community

Mission:

With our commitment to innovation, sharing knowledge and resources along with valuing our diverse experiences we will create efficiencies, best practice and better outcomes for our place based service provision.

Values:

Intrepid:

We are intrepid in our purpose for access to justice for the regional community of WA.

Collaborative:

We are collaborative both within our own partnerships, but also with the broader CLC community.

Integral:

We lead with integrity as a guiding principle for the decisions we make and the actions we undertake.

The current members of the Working Group are:

Joanna Collins

CEO at Pilbara Community Legal Service

Richard Sykes

CEO at Regional Alliance West

Matthew Panayi

CEO at Kimberley Community Legal Services

Brodie Lewis

CEO at Great Southern Community Legal Services

David Couri

Executive Officer at Marninwarnitikura Fitzroy Women’s Resource Centre

Tahleisha Bennell-Mustica​

CEO at South West Community Legal Centre