Papers and submissions

RLC’s submission highlights issues including limited funding available to legal service providers and over-policing leading to an overrepresentation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander individuals within the criminal justice system. RLC prepared a submission for the Senate Finance and Public...

RLC assists and advises many clients who have problems accessing the public housing system, getting the assistance they need to maintain their tenancies and transferring to suitable accommodation when their current accommodation places them at risk or does not meet...

The Senate’s inquiry into the operation, regulation and funding of private vocational education and training (VET) providers in Australia presents a genuine opportunity to address broad concerns about the operation of private vocational education and training providers in Australia and...

RLC welcomes the opportunity to make a submission in response to the Legislative Assembly Inquiry conducted by the Public Accounts Committee into Tenancy Management arrangements in NSW Social Housing. RLC has a long history of providing advice, assistance and advocacy to...

RLC manages Sydney Women’s Domestic Violence Court Advocacy Service (Sydney WDVCAS), providing legal advice/assistance to 1700 women per year RLC has a particular interest in ensuring that vulnerable women such as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women, culturally and linguistically diverse women, women with disability,...

In this submission, we emphasise the prevalence of pregnancy discrimination in the workplace, provide some case examples, and discuss parental leave. Some of the trends which RLC has noted in its work with people who have experienced pregnancy discrimination relate...

Redfern Legal Centre has a long history of providing assistance, advice and advocacy to the local community, including many clients with problems involving access to energy. We have seen the significant impact which disconnection from energy can have upon vulnerable people. ...

From August 2009 to June 2010, RLC undertook a community legal education pilot project about credit and debt in the Marrickville LGA targeting the CALD communities in that municipality. The objectives of the project were to: Identify unmet credit and...

Read RLC’s submission.

RLC’s submission focused upon three key issues of access and equity in the financial system for vulnerable and disadvantaged consumers – financial exclusion, financial hardship and financial literacy. Read RLC’s Discussion Paper in Response to the Financial System Inquiry.