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ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER : This is indeed a national crisis and it's a national challenge, and we're facing this with a spirit of national unity.
LAURA TINGLE: In June last year, the Albanese Government announced an independent review of the current funding agreement between the federal and state governments for legal assistance, an agreement which is due to expire next year. After all, the Mundy review, as it is known, reported to the AG in March, and called for the government to stop treating the sector quote “like sporting clubs bidding for funds", making 39 recommendations for reform.ELENA ROSENMAN: The report was pretty damning. I mean, it's rare, I think that you read a report that recommends jettisoning the entire basis of a funding model for a service sector.
ELENA ROSENMAN: So it means that for many qualified lawyers who have, you know, absolutely, the best interests of the community at heart, that want to be part of responding to domestic and family violence, to discrimination on the grounds of gender, and race and other things like that, they actually are put into a position where they can't afford to take the jobs that we have on offer.
LAURA TINGLE: Today in Question Time, the Attorney-General acknowledged the budget funding was a drop in the ocean.
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