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Respect@Work
Discrimination
Funding
Confirmation of Funding for Respect@Work Legal Services is a Major Step Forward for Victim-Survivors of Workplace Sexual Harassment and Discrimination
New Federal funding under the National Access to Justice Partnership will deliver ongoing funding for 31 frontline legal services that provide advice, representation, and support to victim-survivors of workplace sexual harassment and discrimination. This will mean greater certainty around the longevity of these essential services.
Funding
Private Practitioners
NLA Legal Aid Private Practitioners Census Report Launch
View a full recording of the successful launch of National Legal Aid's 2024 Legal Aid Private Practitioners' Census Report.
Funding
Domestic and Family Violence
National Legal Aid welcomes funding to expand support for victim-survivors of sexual violence in the justice system
A new $21.4 million federal funding package will maintain existing pilot programs to support victim-survivors of sexual violence in the justice system and nationally expand programs to each jurisdiction.
Funding
Private Practitioners
Media Release: Landmark Legal Aid Census Flags Lawyer Shortage
National Legal Aid is proud to launch the results from our first national survey of over 1,000 Legal Aid private lawyers. Private lawyers are vital to the legal assistance sector, delivering over 70% of the over 150,000 legal aid grants every year. However, the supply of private lawyers is reaching crisis levels, with a third planning to do less legal aid work in the next 5 years.
NLA's Private Practitioners' Census Report Launch
You're invited to the launch of NLA's Private Practitioners' Census Report!
Inquiry highlights the acute need for ongoing funding of disaster legal services
The House of Representatives Standing Committee on Economics have published their report on the inquiry into insurer’s responses to 2022 major flood claims Flood failure to future fairness.
Independent Children’s Lawyer Program at Crisis Point
Legal Aid Commissions face a nation-wide crisis in the sustainability of the Independent Children’s Lawyer (ICL) Program. The challenges for these lawyers was a key discussion point at the National Independent Children’s Lawyer conference held in Perth yesterday, where more than 100 Independent Children’s Lawyers were in attendance.
NLA & WLSA media statement: Family Violence should be considered in property disputes under Family Law Act
Today, Women’s Legal Services Australia and National Legal Aid will tell the Australian Parliament that family violence must be a factor considered in family law property disputes.
Australian Human Rights Commission (Cost Protection) Bill passed
The Australian Human Rights Commission (Cost Protection) Bill was passed last week. National Legal Aid, in partnership with the Kingsford Legal Centre and the Australian Council of Trade Unions, would like to thank everyone involved for their incredible advocacy. We thank and acknowledge everyone who has advocated in this area, as this work has been done by so many organisations with passionate staff and volunteers.