To provide funding to environmental legal assistance organisations to: (a) provide legal information and legal assistance services (including legal advice and legal representation): (i) to persons in relation to matters in the federal jurisdiction or in relation to Commonwealth laws; or (ii) specifically targeted to assist Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people; or (iii) to persons in a Territory; or (b) provide legal information and assistance services through the use of telephone and online communication services; or (c) provide for online and telephone communication between environmental legal assistance organisations; or (d) evaluate or improve the matters referred to in paragraph (a), (b) or (c) above. This objective has the effect it would have if it were limited to measures: (a) with respect to postal, telegraphic, telephonic, and other like services (within the meaning of paragraph 51(v) of the Constitution); or (b) with respect to Indigenous Australians and particular groups of Indigenous Australians; or (c) incidental to the execution of the legislative powers vested in the Commonwealth; or (d) undertaken in, or in relation to, a Territory. |