Community legal services turn clients away amid funding shortfall as family violence spikes
Centres across Australia struggle with demand as sector awaits reforms indicated by attorney general Mark Dreyfus
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Legal services have turned away dozens of clients amid a funding shortfall affecting the sector.
The Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service (Vals) had stopped taking new clients more than a fortnight ago, about the same time as the Northern community legal centre (CLC), based in the Melbourne suburb of Broadmeadows, stopped seeing certain clients.
Law (Australia) | The Guardian
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