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    Legal Aid Board & Legal Aid Queensland


    Body Name: Legal Aid Board & Legal Aid Queensland
    Body Description: The Board's functions are to manage Legal Aid Queensland, and to ensure it achieves its objects under the Act. The main functions of Legal Aid Queensland are - (a) to ensure legal assistance is given in the most effective, economic, commercial and efficient way; (b) to manage its resources so as to make legal assistance available at a reasonable cost to the community and on an equitable basis throughout the State; (c) to control and administer amounts given to it by the State or Commonwealth under a legal assistance arrangement or otherwise; (d) to pursue innovative ways of giving persons legal assistance to minimise the need for individual legal services in the community; and (e) to pursue the objectives in section 44 of the Act.
    Body Function: Governing
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    Street Address: 44 Herschel Street
    BRISBANE QLD
    4000
    Postal Address: GPO Box 2449
    BRISBANE QLD
    4001
    Phone Number: (07) 3182 5182
    Email: laq.chair@legalaid.qld.gov.au
    Last Updated: 04/11/2024
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    Body is Active: Yes
    Reporting Requirements: Annual Report
    Max Appointees: 6
    Chairperson Remuneration Rate: Governance Level 3
    Members Remuneration Rate: Governance Level 3
    Approval Process: Cabinet and Governor in Council
    Body Region: Brisbane and surrounds

    Members

    FamilyNameGivenNamesPositionTitleAppointmentStartDateAppointmentEndDate
    Legal Aid QueenslandCEOChief Executive Officer01-03-202128-02-2026
    McMurdo AMMargaretChair05-05-202304-05-2026
    TarragoAvelinaMember05-05-202304-05-2026
    AnsteeMichaelMember05-05-202304-05-2026
    BrowneSpencerMember24-08-202423-08-2027
    AlexanderMatildaMember24-08-202423-08-2027

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    Contact us

    For information on the Queensland Register of Appointees to Government Bodies please email Register.Appointees@premiers.qld.gov.au or telephone (07) 3003 9247.

    To report an omission or request an update of the Queensland Register of Appointees to Government Bodies, please email Register.Appointees@premiers.qld.gov.au. All requests for changes will be verified. As a result, changes are not made immediately.

    Last updated:
    28 November, 2023