Today is International Human Rights Day and the anniversary of Paul Keating’s historic Redfern Address. Keating saw Redfern as an appropriate place to contemplate our...
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Media Release: International Day for People with Disability – Report to the United Nations Highlights...
A recent report by Redfern Legal Centre and several other organisations, Disability Rights Now was recently submitted to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with...
3 December 2012
Media Release: Protecting women’s rights: Australia has a long way to go
White Ribbon Day (25 Novermber) is a day led by men who seek to change the attitudes and behaviours that lead to be perpetuate violence...
21 November 2012
Media Relase: Celebrating the National Apology to Indigenous Australians
On 13 February 2008, the Federal Government apologised ‘for the laws and policies… that have inflicted profound grief, suffering and loss on these our fellow...
9 February 2012
Media Release: Jetstar discrimination case goes to the Federal Court
In a matter before the federal court this week, Sheila King is seeking a declaration that Jetstar’s ‘two wheelchair policy’ is discriminatory. In 2008 Jetstar denied...
31 October 2011
Media Release: New Legal Kit Shows Boarders, Lodgers and Share Houses Left Out in the...
As part of National Homeless Persons Week, Redfern Legal Centre launched their new Boarders Legal Kit. The Lord Mayor Clover Moore MP, who funded the...
4 August 2011
Media Release: Know the law – it can help
“When people come to Australia either to settle or just for a while as students, they often have problems with money, their jobs, their housing...
3 June 2011
Media Release: State Government forgets most vulnerable in share housing with new Residential Tenancies Bill...
As rent goes up and housing affordability declines, more and more people are turning to share housing to help make ends meet, with many of...
11 June 2010