Media releases

The NSW Government’s ‘law and order’ response to the pandemic created significant fines debt and damaged community-police relations in some of the most disadvantaged parts of the state, according to a new UNSW Law School report. 

NSW Supreme Court the State of New South Wales conceded that the COVID-19 fines issued to the three plaintiffs are invalid and fail to meet the legal requirements under the Fines Act (NSW).

NSW Supreme Court to Hear COVID-19 Fines Test Case

Redfern Legal Centre (RLC) is calling on the NSW Government to put an immediate stay on enforcement orders issued to people who have not yet paid their COVID-19 fines.

Leading domestic and violence advocates say they cannot support the Coercive Control Bill in its current form.

Latest NSW Police strip-search figures show that throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, thousands of people were still being subjected to strip searches, with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and children disproportionately targeted.

A class action has been filed by Redfern Legal Centre and Slater and Gordon Lawyers against the state of NSW on behalf of people who have been invasively and unlawfully searched by police at music festivals over the past six years.

RLC is calling on the Law Enforcement Conduct Commission (LECC) to examine NSW Police’s internal child protection policy.

Redfern Legal Centre has called on NSW Police to release its 'Safe Driving’ policy as a matter of urgency following the tragic death of a 16-year-old Indigenous boy, Jai Wright.

Splendour in the Grass patrons who were unlawfully searched by NSW Police could each be entitled to substantial compensation, class action investigators from Redfern Legal Centre and Slater + Gordon Lawyers have revealed today. People affected by serious breaches could potentially be entitled to tens of thousands of dollars each.