Introduction

Our financial result was a surplus of $15.6 million, which is $28.9 million more than our budgeted deficit of $13.3 million.

Income

Total income for 2023–24 was $545.1 million, and expenditure was $527.5 million.

Funding from the NSW Government was $280.7 million. Funding from the Commonwealth under the National Legal Assistance Partnership was $142.3 million.

Acceptance by the Crown Entity of employees’ benefits and other liabilities was $5.4 million.

Funding from other sources includes $43.6 million from the Public Purpose Fund, $59.7 million from other grants received and $12.6 million from other sources.

Further details may be found in Notes accompanying financial statements 2023–24 (PDF, 456 kb).

Expenses

Our major expenses for 2023–24 were:

  • employee-related expenses of $209.0 million ($177.6 million in 2022–23), and
  • payments to private lawyers and other professional services of $171.6 million ($163.3 million in 2022–2023).

Our financial performance over five years

Total expenses ($M)

Bar chart displaying our total expenses over five years. Our total expenses were $527.5 million in 2023–2024, $479.3 million in 2022–2023, $426.0 million in 2021–2022, $404.7 million in 2020–2021, and $372.1 million in 2019–2020.

Surplus or deficit ($M)

Bar chart displaying surplus or deficit over five years. We had a surplus of $15.6 million in 2023–2024, $10.9 million in 2022–2023, and $13.5 million in 2021–2022. We had a deficit of $11.3 million in 2020–2021, and a surplus of $6.9 million in 2019–2020.

Budget outline 2023–24

Operating statement

CategoryAmount ($M)
Revenue (including government contributions)545.1
Expenditure527.5
Other gains or losses(1.9)
Net result15.6

Balance sheet

CategoryAmount ($M)
Current assets80.1
Non-current assets44.6
Total assets124.7
Current liabilities53.8
Non-current liabilities9.1
Total liabilities62.9
Net assets61.8
Equity61.8

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