Carol Brown (Tasmania, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Families and Payments) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister for Veterans' Affairs, Senator Ronaldson. I refer to the Abbott government's decision to cut $15 million from legal aid in last year's budget. I also refer to Ms Jane Needham SC, President of the New South Wales Bar Association, who said that, as a result of these cuts:

Veterans and their families will no longer be funded to retain private lawyers in cases where they challenge decisions

of the Australian Government in the Administrative Appeals Tribunal for a pension or Gold Card.

Is Ms Needham correct?