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National Legal Aid Submission to Joint Standing Committee on NDIS – 15 October 2025
- Provide access to advice services as a standard part of the Program and continue to provide high quality representation services.
- Retain the flexibility for Legal Aid Commissions to tailor the Program to local contexts and communities.
- Identify, and reach out to, groups of people who are missing out on the Program.
Partnerships
- Continue to build strong relationships with disability advocacy organisations.
- Improve national and local information sharing and relationship building between Legal Aid Commissions, the Administrative Review Tribunal and the National Disability Insurance Agency.
- Ensure nationally consistent reporting and communications between LACs and the Department of Social Services.
- Embed the expertise of people with disability in program design and development.
Data Collection
- Set up a nationally consistent approach to data collection.
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Partnerships
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