Health Justice Australia

Health Justice Australia was formed in 2016 to support health justice partnership, a practitioner-led movement that was transforming the way some health, legal, and other services were helping people with complex, intersecting needs.

This movement saw community lawyers moving out of their offices and into the most unlikely places – hospitals and community health settings. Here, they collaborate with health services and their patients to address legal problems that harm their health like poor quality housing, family violence, and mental ill-health.

Without the addition of a lawyer to their care teams, many of these people would never have considered asking for legal help or even recognise they had legal needs. Integrating lawyers into health spaces helps prevent these issues from progressing until they reach crisis point.