InBrief

Australians are overwhelmingly in favour of universal legal aid availability, according to an independent national poll commissioned by the Legal Aid Matters campaign. Unfortunately, only eight per cent of Australians qualify for legal aid. Incredibly, more than half of people living below the poverty line do not qualify. The Legal Aid Matters campaign is calling on the next federal government to inject $350 million into legal aid to end the current funding crisis. View the results of the poll here and the first media coverage here.