Federal Labor has pledged $300,000 to the Gosnells Community Legal Centre over the next three years if elected in July.
Shadow attorney general Mark Dreyfus and Labor candidate for Burt Matt Keogh made the announcement on Friday.
The funding forms part of a $43 million commitment by Labor to frontline legal services and according to the party it would help the centre keep its doors open.
Mr Keogh said the funding was vital to ensuring victims of domestic violence would be able to continue accessing legal advice through the centre.
“Of course that community legal centre in Gosnells also runs a specific domestic violence program, which has an outreach program running out of Armadale,” he said.
“That’s really important because we know the highest prevalence of domestic violence in the metro area is in these southeast metro suburbs.”
He said the three-year commitment would also provide a level of certainty for services, which had previously been lacking.
“What we’ve seen under the current government has been massive cuts to funding for community legal centres across the board and it’s not just been the quantum of the cuts but also the way in which they’ve been delivered,” he said.
Mr Keogh said the CLCs had been living from year to year without any long term certainty.
