Policy news

Community Legal Centres NSW submitted a Pre-Budget Submission to the NSW Government in December 2025. Our submission proposes a sustainable investment in community legal centres, in seven parts.

Community Legal Centres NSW made a submission to the Review of the Anti-Discrimination Act 1977 (NSW) in September 2025.

Community Legal Centres NSW contributed to the NSW Legal Assistance Forum's submission on medicare for people in prison in April 2026.

Community Legal Centres NSW made a submission on gender undervaluation to the Fair Work Commission on 28 May 2025.

The NSW Government has failed to distribute $3-3.5 million it promised to community legal centres one year ago under the National Access to Justice Partnership.

The NSW Government has once again failed to properly fund Community Legal Centres, ignoring our modest pre-Budget funding request.

Community Legal Centres NSW made a submission to the NSW wellbeing inquiry at the end of August. We support the development of a wellbeing framework to guide government budgeting and prioritise wellbeing in policymaking.

The NSW Government has failed to increase funding for Community Legal Centres in the NSW Budget, handed down on 18 June. With a small increase in May’s Federal Budget, Community Legal Centres NSW hoped this would be matched in the NSW Budget.

Community Legal Centres NSW put in a submission to the independent review of the National Legal Assistance Partnership in October 2023.

The referendum for me, was a chance to be counted. To be seen as real people in this country that our ancestors have cared for, for thousands of years. A country we, as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, BELONG to.

This is Community Legal Centres NSW's preliminary submission to the review of the Anti-Discrimination Act 1977 (NSW).

We all deserve to be safe at work and free from discrimination and sexual harassment. While sexual harassment is pervasive across all industries and all employment levels in Australia, it is not inevitable.