George Brandis (Queensland, Liberal Party, Attorney-General) Share this | Hansard source

The only decision that this government has made has been through the national partnership agreement, which provides, as I was saying in my answer to your initial question, $1.62 billion over five years to legal aid commissions, CLCs and Indigenous legal assistance providers, which will increase the funding in nominal terms and maintain it in real terms. The only cut of which I have had to advise members of the sector is the cut arising from the Dreyfus funding cliff as a result of a decision in the last Labor budget, when Mr Dreyfus took a submission to the Labor government's budget committee, whatever it is called, and decided that additional funding would terminate in 2017.