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  The Australian Legal Assistance Forum has been established to enable the members to consider and address Australian legal assistance issues in a co-operative way and to make recommendations on those issues in a co-ordinated fashion.
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  Integral to our policy and advocacy role is the constructive advice, guidance and direction we provide to government. This page contains the submissions NLA has made to various Commonwealth Government and Parliamentary inquiries.
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  Research and reports aimed at enhancing legal aid funding and quantitatively assessing legal needs to improve access and outcomes across Australia.
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- With You Training
  With You is a national training program for trauma-informed, rights-based legal services to people experiencing distress, mental health concerns, or suicidality.
- amica
  amica helps couples reach amicable agreements about property settlements and parenting arrangements – and it enables them to record those agreements in plain language.
- Family Advocacy and Support Service
  The Family Advocacy and Support Service (FASS) is an integrated duty lawyer and social worker service for those affected by family violence.
- Family Violence Law Help
  Family Violence Law Help is a national website for people wanting to understand domestic and family violence, the law and where to get help.
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Home
About
Policy & advocacy
- ALAF
  The Australian Legal Assistance Forum has been established to enable the members to consider and address Australian legal assistance issues in a co-operative way and to make recommendations on those issues in a co-ordinated fashion.
- Submissions
  Integral to our policy and advocacy role is the constructive advice, guidance and direction we provide to government. This page contains the submissions NLA has made to various Commonwealth Government and Parliamentary inquiries.
- Reports
  Research and reports aimed at enhancing legal aid funding and quantitatively assessing legal needs to improve access and outcomes across Australia.
National Services
- With You Training
  With You is a national training program for trauma-informed, rights-based legal services to people experiencing distress, mental health concerns, or suicidality.
- amica
  amica helps couples reach amicable agreements about property settlements and parenting arrangements – and it enables them to record those agreements in plain language.
- Family Advocacy and Support Service
  The Family Advocacy and Support Service (FASS) is an integrated duty lawyer and social worker service for those affected by family violence.
- Family Violence Law Help
  Family Violence Law Help is a national website for people wanting to understand domestic and family violence, the law and where to get help.
- Legal Aid National Child Support
News

12 June, 2024

NLA Statement on the Final Report of the Independent Review of National Legal Assistance Partnership

National Legal Aid welcomes the release of the NLAP Review Report. The Report acknowledges that the legal assistance sector has been under..

Recent news articles

01 July, 2025

National Legal Aid welcomes funding for national innovative legal assistance projects

National Legal Aid statement on the announcement of the Attorney-General's Department's Community Legal Services program 2025-30.

30 June, 2025

Media Release: National Access to Justice Partnership now live

National Legal Aid's media statement about the implementation of the National Access to Justice Partnership funding agreement, July 2025.

08 May, 2025

Data Domestic and Family Violence Family Law

Legal assistance data highlights critical role of Legal Aid in providing family law services

We welcome the second release of national legal assistance data by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) as an important step in providing national data and evidence of access to justice in Australia.

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