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Redfern Legal Centre supports the Uluru Statement from the Heart as an important step forward for all Australians. It is time to embed a First Nations Voice in Australia’s Parliament. This is a priority, and we must progress without delay.

Over 20 local community and legal groups, including Redfern Legal Centre, have joined forces as the Redfern Waterloo Alliance of Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisations and Allies to start a campaign for more social and affordable housing.

In 2019, Redfern Legal Centre (RLC) received a grant from City of Sydney to commission an original First Nations artwork.

Some reflections on NAIDOC Week 2020 from RLC's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Access Worker.

In July, a human rights report endorsed by RLC and over 200 other Australian not-for-profit and community organisations was submitted to the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Commission.

Redfern Legal Centre welcomes the release of the Final Report of the Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC) Inquiry into the Incarceration Rate of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, tabled in Parliament on Wednesday 28 March 2018.

Redfern Legal Centre supports growing calls to change the date of Australia Day. 26 January should be commemorated as a day of mourning, protest and reflection, rather than a national day of celebration.

In May 2015, Redfern Legal Centre and Sydney Local Health District partnered to establish the first hospital-based Health Justice Partnership (HJP) in New South Wales.

The Health Justice Partnership addresses the legal dimension to patient health and wellbeing.

RLC and Sydney Local Health District's Aboriginal Health Justice Partnership provides legal services to Indigenous patients based at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital.