Wellbeing and mental health will be crucial for rural and regional lawyers and their communities in order to navigate across a multitude of issues at a challenging time.
In the past 18 months, regional solicitors have dealt with successive crises, including a wicked drought, a catastrophic bushfire season and a global pandemic.
The economic impact of these crises on our regional communities is enormous, affecting entire industries, towns and regions.
At a speech at NSW Law Society’s Rural Issues Day, the Honourable Bronwyn Taylor MLC, Minister for Health, Regional, Youth and Woman said that what struck her is an imbalance between opportunity in rural and city for services such as law which continues to exist.
“It is vital that for rural communities accessing legal services, to make sure we have good practitioners, good access and have great communication. Country people deserve great access to those services that are so very important,” she said.
“We need to make sure we have legal services active and connected across our communities, so we know when events happen like bushfires and drought, we can target those people and get legal services accessible for them as required.”
