A request has been made to the Commonwealth government urging the implementation of an initiative aimed at reducing Higher Education Contribution Scheme (HECS) debt for legal practitioners who move to rural, regional, and remote areas.
This initiative aims to motivate legal professionals to offer their knowledge and legal skills to marginalised communities, with the goal of improving the accessibility of legal services within these regional areas.
The need to implement such a program is evident by the ongoing decrease in the number of legal practitioners in the city of Lismore following the floods they experienced in 2022.
According to the Law Society of NSW, in the last two years following the flood event, the overall number…
