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On 26 September, Mr Alex Greenwich MP outlined his views on the Residential Tenancies Amendment (Review) Bill 2018 in the NSW Parliament. Mr Greenwich’s Second Reading speech highlighted key issues also raised in RLC’s recent position paper.

RLC welcomes the strengthening of laws in NSW to protect people from stalking and intimidation online and via mobile phones.

RLC's Inner Sydney Tenants' Advice and Advocacy Service (ISTAAS) provides responses to the Residential Tenancies Act 2010 and Amendment (Review) Bill 2018.

Strangulation is one of the most common and lethal forms of domestic violence. It can seriously affect a victim's long-term physical and psychological health and is a highly predictive indicator of future homicide.

Redfern Legal Centre has pioneered frontline domestic violence legal services for more than 30 years and is extremely proud of its Sydney Women's Domestic Violence Court Advocacy Service (SWDVCAS).

The NSW State Government is trialing a new model of living arrangements for victims of serious domestic violence, The Daily Telegraph reports.

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

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.

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.