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

I think all of us are aware that, for some time, community legal services, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Services, have been struggling with the level of demand for their services, particularly in the family violence space, and that's exactly one of the reasons why our government has taken the decision to provide another $800 million in funding to services like that. It's exactly about ensuring that legal services don't have to turn away anywhere near as many people as they have previously. They had to do that because of the gross underfunding that we inherited from the former government, and now we're fixing it. An extra $800 million is a significant extra investment.