Legal Aid NSW is delighted to have two finalists named in the 2023 Premier’s Awards.
Legal Aid’s Disaster Response Legal Service Senior Outreach Solicitor Alexandra Rumore has been named as a finalist for the Anthea Kerr Award. The Anthea Kerr Award is awarded to people who exhibit in their work a deep commitment to public sector values and identified leadership potential.
Alex is a warm and generous leader, with social justice and public sector values at the heart of everything she does. When widespread flooding devastated communities across NSW in 2022, Alex was there on the ground. In this emergency, Legal Aid NSW provided over 5,7000 legal services. As a senior outreach lawyer with the Disaster Response Legal Service, Alex provided outstanding leadership and rolled up her sleeves to ensure overwhelmed communities had their legal needs meet. For months, Alex worked long days and weekends, travelling thousands of kilometres to deliver trauma informed legal help where it was needed most.
Legal Aid NSW is proud to be a finalist in the Driving Public Sector Diversity category for our joint partnership between Legal Aid NSW, TAFE NSW and Macquarie University to create the Aboriginal Legal Career Pathways Program. The program recruits Aboriginal people and supports them to complete qualifications in legal services. This creates cohorts of scholars employed by Legal Aid NSW who support each other’s success in vocational education and career development. The program commenced in 2022 and will run over 4 years.
The Awards ceremony will be held at the International Convention Centre, Sydney, on Tuesday 14 November 2023.
Legal Aid NSW congratulates our finalists and wishes all finalists the very best of luck.
A full list of all 2023 finalists can now be viewed on the Premier’s Awards website.