Murray Watt (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations) Share this | Hansard source

The package the government has delivered will provide pay parity for the community legal sector so that lawyers and other workers in CLCs, ATSILSs, women's legal services and family violence prevention and legal services, who are mostly women, will no longer have to accept being paid up to 30 per cent less than their counterparts in legal aid commissions. This investment will mean that they can help more Australians and help more women safely leave and recover from violent relationships. By providing ongoing funding to the sector, we're helping to end the destructive uncertainty created by the former government, which left a decade of chronic underfunding in the legal assistance sector and a funding cliff. (Time expired)