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Media Release: Over-Policing Thwarts Music Festivals
Another music festival cancellation shows the effect of over-policing on the music festival industry. Announcing yesterday the cancellation of the Rock in Rio festival, organisers...
NSW police strip searched 1,546 children in seven years
Redfern Legal Centre (RLC) has released a new report that reveals over a thousand children (aged 10-17 years) have been strip searched by NSW Police...
Open letter to Premier Chris Minns: Don’t turn your back on Closing the Gap
17 March 2024Dear Premier Minns,Don’t turn your back on Closing the Gap.Throwing more children in jail will make crime worse in regional communities, not better.Throwing...
The Need for Reform: Strip Searches of Children by NSW Police
In New South Wales, over seven years (from July 2016 to June 2023), a total of 1,546 children were subjected to an invasive strip search...
Let’s talk about confidentiality: NDA use in sexual harassment settlements since the Respect@Work Report
Let’s Talk About Confidentiality is a research report published on 6 March 2024 by Sharmilla Bargon and Regina Featherstone, the inaugural Social Justice Practitioners-in-Residence at...
Media Release: Redfern Legal Centre Calls for an Independent Review of NSW Police Handling of...
Any review of NSW Police firearm handling procedures should be conducted by an independent body with the findings made public, says Redfern Legal Centre. According...
Media Release: Police watchdog’ makes public findings and recommendations on violent arrest of First Nations...
Redfern Legal Centre (RLC) welcomes many of the findings and recommendations of the Law Enforcement Conduct Commission (LECC) regarding the use of force against a First...
Media Release: Unreasonable, unjust, oppressive and improperly discriminatory: watchdog blasts police on STMP
A scathing report from the Law Enforcement Conduct Commission (LECC) says NSW Police use of the Suspect Targeting Management Plan (STMP) against young people ‘amounted...
Number of girls strip-searched by NSW police jumps 30 per cent in just one year.
The NSW Police Force strip-searched 31 girls (10-17 years) between 1 July 2021 and 30 June 2023. Three girls were aged 12 and six girls...
Has Your Client Been Underpaid? (recording)
Help your clients work out whether they are getting paid properly at work, and what to do about it if they aren’t.Has Your Client Been...