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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.

RLC is proud to support Make Renting Fair, a community campaign calling for a better, fairer deal for renters in NSW.

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 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.

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.

A survey from the Tenants' Union of NSW (TUNSW) and Tenants Advice and Advocacy Services (TAAS) has found that many sharehousing tenants in NSW do not have written tenancy agreements, making them vulnerable to unfair eviction.

On 17 May, Susan Smith, the Coordinator of RLC's Sydney Women’s Domestic Violence Court Advocacy Service (Sydney WDVCAS), spoke at the launch of the new Family Advocacy and Support Services (FASS) program.

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

RLC's Melanie Bradfield spoke to SBS's 'The Feed' about what to do if your own home’s been damaged or flooded, whether you’re a tenant or a home owner.

Redfern Legal Centre’s (RLC) acting tenancy service co-ordinator Tom McDonald spoke to The Daily Telegraph about growing financial pressures Sydney tenants face as rental prices continue to soar.