Ongoing intakeCommonwealth of AustraliaGovernment
Financial Legal Assistance Schemes
Offered by Attorney-General's Department
Ongoing intake
This program accepts applications continuously and the funder publishes no closing date. Ongoing programs do get closed or paused, sometimes without notice, so we watch this one nightly and the alert list is told the day it changes.
Verified against Attorney-General's Department's own page on 27 Aug 2026
Key facts
- Funding amount
- Not stated
- Total pool available: $3,006,000
- Status
- Ongoing intake
- Opened 3 July 2017
- Jurisdiction
- Commonwealth of Australia
- ACT, NSW, VIC, SA, WA, QLD, NT, TAS, Administered Territories, Overseas
- Last verified
- 27 Aug 2026
- The date we last read this program on Attorney-General's Department's own page.
Who can apply
The funder does not publish a structured list of eligible applicant types for this program. The eligibility criteria in the guidelines on the official page are the ones that count.
Eligibility, in the funder's words
Free account
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What the program funds
The Attorney-General's Department administers a range of statutory and non-statutory legal financial assistance schemes. Legal financial assistance schemes Commonwealth public interest and test cases scheme Disbursement support scheme Overseas child abduction scheme Serious overseas criminal matters scheme Special circumstances scheme Other legal financial assistance schemes Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage Protection Act 1984 ,
Free account
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That description is Attorney-General's Department's own wording, reproduced from the official listing under CC BY 4.0 (Australian Government default open licence). Our plain-English summaries are being written program by program and this one has not been done yet.
How to apply
Applications for Financial Legal Assistance Schemes are made through Attorney-General's Department, not through GrantWindow. We do not take applications, charge a fee or act as an intermediary, and any site that offers to apply on your behalf for a government grant is worth a very careful look.
Apply for Financial Legal Assistance Schemes on the official site
Where this came from
Sourced from GrantConnect (grants.gov.au), © Commonwealth of Australia, used under CC BY 4.0.
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