We welcome the Commonwealth's re-affirmation of its funding contribution to the National Access to Justice Partnership agreement (2025-30) in MYEFO and the increase in funding to community legal centres. But we note that this increased funding will still fall short of what is required to meet community need. Read our media release: https://lnkd.in/gRNRhxS9 #SaveCommunityLegalCentres #FundEqualJustice #CommunityLaw
Community Legal Centres Australia
Legal Services
Sydney, NSW 5,689 followers
An independent, not for profit, community-based organisation providing a range of services to the community legal sector
About us
Community legal centres are independent, not-for-profit, community-based organisations that provide a range of services to everyday people, including people experiencing discrimination and disadvantage. We assist communities across Australia. Each year Centres help hundreds of thousands of people through providing a range of services for individual people as well as more broadly for the community. Centres provide a range of legal services as well as undertaking early intervention and preventative strategies such as community legal education and community development and individual skill building. Community legal centres also play a key role in community engagement, advocacy and law and policy reform. More broadly, Centres work to develop and facilitate partnerships between legal assistance providers and legal and non-legal services (for example, domestic violence organisations, community health organisations, housing services and drug and alcohol services). This allows the Centres to provide holistic help to people and is designed to avoid escalation of legal problems. Centres provide services in offices, communities and health care settings across Australia. Centres also work together in National Networks to share information and good practice and undertake policy and advocacy work. Community Legal Centres Australia's members are the eight state and territory community legal centres associations. Together, we represent nearly 180 community legal centres across Australia. Only some associations have a funded Secretariat with dedicated offices and staff (NSW, VIC, QLD and WA). Check out our Linktree for recent sector media coverage, publications and more: https://linktr.ee/communitylegalcentresaus
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https://clcs.org.au/
External link for Community Legal Centres Australia
- Industry
- Legal Services
- Company size
- 11-50 employees
- Headquarters
- Sydney, NSW
- Type
- Nonprofit
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307 Pitt St
Sydney, NSW 2000, AU
Employees at Community Legal Centres Australia
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Ingrid Rikkert
National Accreditation Coordinator at Community Legal Centres Australia
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Emily Hamilton
Law Reform & Social Justice Specialist
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Chris Dubrow
ICT Team Leader at Community Legal Centres Australia
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Reuben Johnson
ICT Helpdesk Support Officer at Community Legal Centres Australia
Updates
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Community legal centres help hundreds of thousands of people a year to untangle the legal and related problems making their lives harder. But because of limited resources, the number of people we were forced to turn away in 2023-24 could've filled the southern hemisphere's largest stadium 3.9 times over. Check out our new report, 'More than legal services: Preventing crises, strengthening communities': https://clcs.org.au/sots/ #CommunityLaw #SaveCommunityLegalCentres #FundEqualJustice
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In 2023-24, frontline domestic and family violence prevention and response made up 40-50% of the community legal sector's work nationally. For rural, remote, and very remote centres, this rises to 70-80%. Check out our new report, 'More than legal services: Preventing crises, strengthening communities' now: https://clcs.org.au/sots/ #CommunityLaw #SaveCommunityLegalCentres #FundEqualJustice
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Did you know that in 2023-24, community legal centres travelled almost 1.3 million kilometres to provide outreach services to people in regional, rural, remote and very remote communities? That's 3.3 times the distance to the moon. Check out our new report, 'More than legal services: Preventing crises, strengthening communities' now: https://clcs.org.au/sots/ #CommunityLaw #SaveCommunityLegalCentres #FundEqualJustice
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It's launched! Check out our State of the Sector 2023-24 report, 'More than legal services: Preventing crises, strengthening communities': https://clcs.org.au/sots/ #CommunityLaw #SaveCommunityLegalCentres #FundEqualJustice
State of the Sector 2023-24 More than legal services: Preventing crises, strengthening communities
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We have just sent in our 2025-26 pre-budget submission. Read: https://lnkd.in/g_iz8YSn Community legal centres help hundreds of thousands of people every year to resolve everyday legal problems, but our sector is significantly under-funded to meet need. The September 2024 Commonwealth announcement of funding security beyond 30 June 2025 and of an uplift in funding has provided a brief reprieve, but it is not enough. Our sector needs additional investment under the National Access to Justice partnership. There are several further specific issues in need of urgent attention in the 2025-26 budget, for which we make targeted funding proposals. #CommunityLaw #FundEqualJustice #SaveCommunityLegalCentres
Federal Budget 2025-26
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Last chance to take action to #savecommunitylegalcentres! With the new National Access to Justice Partnership Agreement due to be signed any day now, we're asking everyone who supports the great work community legal centres do to take part in our final campaign actions for the year. Head to https://lnkd.in/gJEMTa8B and write and take action to ensure that Commonwealth, state, and territory Attorneys-General include LGBTIQ+ people and refugees and asylum seekers as priority groups under the next legal assistance agreement. You'll find the action on the campaign website homepage - it will take just a few minutes to complete. #FundFrontlineServices #CommunityLaw #AccessToJustice Federation of Community Legal Centres Community Legal WA Community Legal Centres NSW Community Legal Centres (South Australia) Community Legal Centres Queensland LGBTI Legal Service Inc. Inner City Legal Centre (ICLC) Fitzroy Legal Service Equality Australia Refugee Advice & Casework Service (RACS) Asylum Seeker Resource Centre Refugee Legal RAILS - Refugee and Immigration Legal Service Immigration Advice and Rights Centre (IARC)
Save Community Legal Centres: End the Funding Crisis
savecommunitylegalcentres.com
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#SaveCommunityLegalCentres #CommunityLaw #AccessToJustice Check out the #SaveCommunityLegalCentres campaign website here: https://lnkd.in/g4wwuP5R Wendy Brooks & Partners Federation of Community Legal Centres Mark Dreyfus Jim Chalmers MP Victorian Council of Social Service ACOSS Australian Council of Social Service
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#SaveCommunityLegalCentres #CommunityLaw #AccessToJustice Check out the #SaveCommunityLegalCentres campaign website here: https://lnkd.in/g4wwuP5R Inner City Legal Centre (ICLC) Community Legal Centres NSW Kate Thwaites MP Mark Dreyfus Jim Chalmers MP NSW Council of Social Service (NCOSS) ACOSS Australian Council of Social Service Tanya Plibersek
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#SaveCommunityLegalCentres #CommunityLaw #AccessToJustice Check out the #SaveCommunityLegalCentres campaign website here: https://lnkd.in/g4wwuP5R Community Legal Centres NSW Central Tablelands and Blue Mountains Community Legal Centre NSW Council of Social Service (NCOSS) ACOSS Australian Council of Social Service Mark Dreyfus
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