Legal Aid urges Federal Government to make long term investment in legal assistance

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.

View a full recording of the successful launch of National Legal Aid's 2024 Legal Aid Private Practitioners' Census Report.

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.

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.

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.