Jacqui Lambie (Tasmania, Jacqui Lambie Network) Share this | Hansard source

Yes, you did provide that funding, but the additional funding needed was $125 million—you were way off and way short—to address funding issues for community legal centres, which will be used to keep the doors open and employ around 2,000 full-time staff to simply meet the demand. With just $9.3 million in extra funding provided in the budget, does the government have a plan to address this funding shortfall, and when will the government commit the necessary funding to community legal centres to ensure access to justice is maintained into the future?