Resources

Redfern Legal Centre’s International Student Clinic helps many students who have experienced issues involving sexual assault. This is a serious issue that affects all genders. About sexual assault Sexual assault can take many different forms. Have any of these things...

This is a historic year for RLC, as we commemorate our 40th anniversary. Our 2016–2017 Annual Report celebrates 40 years of life-changing service delivery and legal reforms for our community.

Redfern Legal Centre’s 2016–17 Annual Report report celebrates our 40th anniversary. We look back on our achievements of the last year, and reflect on RLC’s origins and key milestones of RLC’s 40-year history.

Strangulation is one of the most common and most lethal forms of domestic violence. It is also an act that is highly predictive of future homicide. Over the past six months, 54 victims referred to Redfern Legal Centre’s domestic violence service, the...

RLC recommends the introduction of domestic violence specialist courts (or specialist court list days), to ensure better outcomes for victims through specialist training and collaborative practices between the court. The NSW Domestic Violence Death Review Team Report 2015–2017 highlights a number of issues relating...

In this submission, Redfern Legal Centre (RLC) addresses a Bill to allow Centrelink to make deductions from a tenant’s welfare payment to satisfy debts claimed by the social housing provider. Background On 14 September 2017, the Social Service Legislation Amendment...

In this submission, Redfern Legal Centre (RLC) focuses on the impact of policing on the incarceration rate of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.  Background On 17 July 2017 the Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC) released a discussion paper on Incarceration...

On 11 August 2017, the NSW government passed laws granting police sweeping new powers to move on people occupying designated public reserves. The legislation was rushed through parliament, without proper scrutiny or consultation, to enable the state government to immediately...

This factsheet answers some frequently asked questions about police powers in NSW.  A police officer may search you if they suspect on reasonable grounds that you are in possession of stolen goods; dangerous goods or weapons; or illegal drugs.  ...

This bulletin focuses on RLC’s Credit, Debt & Consumer Law Service, including our work supporting people in financial hardship who access unsuitable financial products, such as payday loans and consumer leases, which inevitably entrench financial hardship.  Read the bulletin here.