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2025
- New rental laws, mobile phones and traffic fines: Law Week to focus on common legal problems (6 May 2025)
- Free legal help available for cyclone-affected residents (6 March 2025)
- Legal Aid intervenes in Centrelink test case (3 March 2025)
- DV and housing issues drive demand for legal aid in Port Macquarie (11 February 2025)
- Legal Aid launches new law graduate program to ‘supercharge careers’ (11 February 2025)
- ‘A milestone’: New Legal Aid office to open in Moree, recruitment drive launched (13 January 2025)
2024
- Record numbers seeking legal help with housing and tenancy problems (5 December 2024)
- New agreement helps reduce the number of children entering foster care (Joint media release, 5 December 2024)
- Know your rights with the free Legal topics for seniors diary (2 December 2024)
- Support for victim-survivors of financial abuse (Joint media release, 27 November 2024)
- People urged to check their insurance cover this disaster season as living costs rise (12 November 2024)
- Legal matters made easier with new Legal Aid NSW client portal (7 November 2024)
- Innovative First Nations justice project for Hunter region (5 August 2024)
- Surge in NSW workers seeking legal help for wage theft (28 May 2024)
- Learn how Legal Aid can help you this Law Week (17 May 2024)
- ‘We don’t turn anyone away’: Demand for DV legal aid grows amid epidemic (23 April 2024)
- Legal aid available for flood-impacted NSW residents (9 April 2024)
- Hundreds of NSW women get legal help for workplace sexual harassment and discrimination (6 March 2024)
2023
- Free diary helps seniors know their rights (Joint media release, 5 December 2023)
- New tools for lawyers to help clients with trauma and mental ill-health (16 November 2023)
- New Legal Aid office for south-west Sydney to meet rising demand (Joint media release, 31 October 2023)
- Future First Nations lawyers graduate from new program (25 October 2023)
- Legal advice for families to keep kids at home (24 October 2023)
- People urged to check their insurance early this bushfire season (4 October 2023)
- Groundbreaking approach for Aboriginal families in care proceedings to help Close the Gap (DCJ media release, 8 September 2023)
- $12.5 million to make applying for legal aid easier (4 September 2023)
- New Legal Aid office in far-west NSW to expand regional access to justice (19 July 2023)
- New service to keep First Nations families together (18 July 2023)
- Closing the gap in the legal sector (27 June 2023)
- Regions to benefit from new family law support service (26 June 2023)
- New children’s book helps refugees get legal help (20 June 2023)
- More seniors getting legal help for elder abuse (17 January 2023)
2022
- LawAccess NSW Year in Review 2022 (22 December 2022)
- DRLS E-newsletter December 2022 (20 December 2022)
- Spike in demand for legal help after floods amid insurance backlog (7 December 2022)
- Free legal diary and calendar for seniors (5 December 2022)
- Free legal help and information for South West Sydney (1 December 2022)
- New Aboriginal legal career pathway to help close the gap (10 November 2022)
- Housing insecurity ‘reaching crisis levels’ in regional areas (3 November 2022)
- Lawyers in NSW libraries to bring law to life this Law Week (9 May 2022)
- Funding for family law and family violence legal assistance welcomed (31 March 2022)
- Free legal help for separating families in Griffith (20 January 2022)