RLC in the media

My whole life is in that house’: survivors fleeing domestic violence can lose much more than their home

New South Wales police used force toward Aboriginal people at a vastly disproportionate rate compared to non-Indigenous people, new data has shown.

3 June 2024

a woman silhouetted at a window in a home

RLC in the media

Sexually transmitted debt: How financial services are fighting financial abuse

There’s been a change in the types of matters coming through the doors of Redfern Legal Centre’s financial abuse service.

6 May 2024

RLC in the media

How you could get money back from invalid COVID fines

On what grounds are the fines being challenged... And what happens if you've already paid the fine?

19 July 2023

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RLC in the media

Redfern Legal Centre calls for the withdrawal of 29,000 COVID fines

Redfern Legal Centre (RLC) has filed a new NSW Supreme Court application to cancel a COVID-related fine on the grounds of invalidity.

17 July 2023

RLC in the media

Court challenge aims to cancel all remaining NSW COVID fines

All remaining COVID-19-related fines in NSW, worth tens of millions of dollars, could be cancelled following a fresh court challenge which aims to have a specific type of fine issued during lockdowns declared invalid.

16 July 2023

RLC in the media

‘It’s the first thing that they look at’: claims of racial profiling levelled at Victoria police after Covid fines report

Human rights lawyer says report provides ‘robust’ evidence of profiling, which police deny.

4 July 2023

RLC in the media

Calls for Victorian government to scrap Covid fines as data shows minority groups more likely to be penalised

Some community leaders say report is evidence of officers targeting people based on their ethnicity, which Victoria police rejects.

27 June 2023

RLC in the media

Aboriginal elders support investigation into policing of COVID-19 fines in Walgett

Indigenous community leaders in Walgett in western NSW are supporting calls for an investigation into police enforcement of COVID-19 fines.

10 June 2023

RLC in the media

Calls for an investigation into NSW Police issuing excessive COVID fines

Former NSW Police Commissioner Mick Fuller and the NSW Police are facing a formal complaint over their “heavy-handed approach” in issuing more than 60,000 COVID-19 fines between March 2020 and September 2022.

9 June 2023

RLC in the media

NSW unlikely to withdraw further Covid fines despite court ruling many were unlawful

More than 33,000 fines were rescinded last year after a supreme court ruling, but correspondence from authorities suggests thousands more will stand.

6 June 2023

RLC in the media

Topics

My whole life is in that house’: survivors fleeing domestic violence can lose much more than their home

Sexually transmitted debt: How financial services are fighting financial abuse

How you could get money back from invalid COVID fines

Redfern Legal Centre calls for the withdrawal of 29,000 COVID fines

Court challenge aims to cancel all remaining NSW COVID fines

‘It’s the first thing that they look at’: claims of racial profiling levelled at Victoria police after Covid fines report

Calls for Victorian government to scrap Covid fines as data shows minority groups more likely to be penalised

Aboriginal elders support investigation into policing of COVID-19 fines in Walgett

Calls for an investigation into NSW Police issuing excessive COVID fines

NSW unlikely to withdraw further Covid fines despite court ruling many were unlawful

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