Papers and submissions

RLC backs prohibiting strip searches of children, queries the Bill's constitutional validity, and recommends Commonwealth-State reform, statutory safeguards, and amended protections under the Crimes Act 1914 (Cth).

This submission focuses on the application of the Bill’s consent requirements and proposed fair and reasonable test to ongoing access to consumers’ banking transaction data.  It also highlights the risks that such access may create for people experiencing financial abuse.

Redfern Legal Centre supports the NSW coercive control reform but argues that criminalisation alone is insufficient—success depends on changing police culture, systems, and practice to properly identify and respond to financial and economic abuse as a core component of coercive control. The submission recommends extending the mental element to include recklessness and broadening the offence to all domestic relationships in principle, but only after evidence shows the current offence is being implemented safely and effectively.

This report analyses a decade of data on strip searches and drug dog use in New South Wales, obtained through parliamentary Questions on Notice after initial access was denied. Between 2014 and 2023, NSW Police conducted 82,471 strip searches. Illicit substances were found in only 13.5% of cases, meaning 86.5% of searches yielded no drugs. The report calls for changes based on these findings.

A list of NSW Police Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and guidelines obtained through freedom of information laws.

Submissions authored by RLC’s Financial Abuse Service: Submission to the Attorney General’s Department’s consultation on a bankruptcy Minimal Asset Procedure (August 2024)

Redfern Legal Centre's Submission to the 2024 Federal Parliamentary Inquiry into Australia’s Youth Justice and Incarceration System.

RLC's submission provides input on the Australian Financial Complaints Authority’s draft Responsible Lending Approach

Our submission to provide feedback to assist the Legal and Constitutional Affairs Legislation Committee in its review of the Family Law Amendment Bill 2024 (the Bill).

RLC’s submission in response to the Personal Insolvency Discussion Paper.