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- Towards 2030: NLA Strategic Plan
  This plan provides an overview of National Legal Aid's strategic plan for the next five years. It identifies the vision, purpose, and goals of our work towards 2030. It answers the questions of who we are, who we support, how we work, what we offer, and our impact.
- Towards 2030: NLA Strategic Operating Plan
  This plan outlines how we will measure success, the benefits of our work and a five year strategic operating plan for the NLA Directorate. This plan will be reported on as a regular agenda item at NLA Directors meetings and will be reviewed annually.
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
  A National referral directory for Child Support Services across Australian Legal Aids.
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Home
About
- Towards 2030: NLA Strategic Plan
  This plan provides an overview of National Legal Aid's strategic plan for the next five years. It identifies the vision, purpose, and goals of our work towards 2030. It answers the questions of who we are, who we support, how we work, what we offer, and our impact.
- Towards 2030: NLA Strategic Operating Plan
  This plan outlines how we will measure success, the benefits of our work and a five year strategic operating plan for the NLA Directorate. This plan will be reported on as a regular agenda item at NLA Directors meetings and will be reviewed annually.
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
  A National referral directory for Child Support Services across Australian Legal Aids.
News

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18 August, 2025

Towards 2030 NLA Strategic Plan launch

Last week National Legal Aid were proud to launch our 5-year strategic plan: Towards 2030! To commemorate the launch, we hosted an online forum which provided an overview of NLA’s strategic priorities and our plan to implement them.

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15 May, 2024

Funding

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

A coalition of legal assistance services are calling on the Federal and State/Territory Governments to introduce a series of reforms to address...

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