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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
- Royal Commission Legal Assistance Service
  National Legal Aid has established a national legal service to support individuals to engage with the Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion.
  Learn more about accessing this service for free legal information, help, and advice, including about voluntary submissions to the Royal Commission.
- Independent Children’s Lawyers (ICL Program)
  The National Independent Children’s Lawyer Program supports ICLs across Australia advocating for children's best interests in family law proceedings.
- amica
  amica helps couples reach amicable agreements about property settlements and parenting arrangements – and it enables them to record those agreements in plain language.
- Bugmy Bar Book
  The Bugmy Bar Book provides free, up-to-date, practical and accessible resources to support decision-makers, lawyers, mental health professionals, and service providers understand the impacts of adverse early life experiences and the impact of trauma, inequality, and systemic barriers.
- 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.
National Training
- Understanding Coercive Control Training
  Practical training for lawyers to identify and respond safely when a client is experiencing coercive control, across all practice areas
- With You Training
  With You is a national training program for the legal assistance sector to provide trauma-informed, rights-based legal services.
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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
- Royal Commission Legal Assistance Service
  National Legal Aid has established a national legal service to support individuals to engage with the Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion.
  Learn more about accessing this service for free legal information, help, and advice, including about voluntary submissions to the Royal Commission.
- Independent Children’s Lawyers (ICL Program)
  The National Independent Children’s Lawyer Program supports ICLs across Australia advocating for children's best interests in family law proceedings.
- amica
  amica helps couples reach amicable agreements about property settlements and parenting arrangements – and it enables them to record those agreements in plain language.
- Bugmy Bar Book
  The Bugmy Bar Book provides free, up-to-date, practical and accessible resources to support decision-makers, lawyers, mental health professionals, and service providers understand the impacts of adverse early life experiences and the impact of trauma, inequality, and systemic barriers.
- 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.
National Training
- Understanding Coercive Control Training
  Practical training for lawyers to identify and respond safely when a client is experiencing coercive control, across all practice areas
- With You Training
  With You is a national training program for the legal assistance sector to provide trauma-informed, rights-based legal services.
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

12 June, 2026

Family Law Coercive Control

National coercive control training now available free to all Australian lawyers

A consortium of leading legal organisations has launched two free online training courses to help lawyers across Australia identify and respond to coercive control.

02 June, 2026

Joint statement: NDIS reforms risk real harm without proper consultation

In this joint statement, Community Legal Centres Australia, the Law Council of Australia, National Legal Aid and National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Services urge the Australian Government to allow sufficient time to genuinely consult on amendments, safeguards and implementation relating to the proposed reforms to the NDIS. Government must work with people with disability and the disability sector to secure the NDIS by strengthening trust, safeguards and rights - not by rushing changes before their consequences are understood and planned for.

22 May, 2026

National Legal Aid welcomes consultation on Second Action Plan

National Legal Aid welcomed the Australian Government’s commencement of consultation on the Second Action Plan under the National Plan to End Violence Against Women and Children 2022–2032. We commend the Government’s continued commitment to driving action to address gender-based violence and are grateful for the opportunity work closely with Government to ensure the Plan delivers practical, system-wide improvements.

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