Abstract
Recent comment on the Australian legal aid system has focussed on the declining levels of funding and the consequent impact of this reduced funding. Little attention has been given to the range of other changes that have occurred within the legal aid system in the last five years.1 There have been changes at all levels: in the organisational structures of legal aid organisations; the management of the provision of legal aid services; the form and number of legal services; and the relationships between the stakeholders in the system. Many of these changes did result from severe Commonwealth funding reductions in the 1997/98 funding year and the shift to the purchaser/provider model of Commonwealth government funding. Other changes are representative of broader developments in technology, management and government. Different changes have occurred in different States but a fundamental change has been the shift away from seeking a unified approach to the provision of legal aid across Australia.
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