RLC in the media

City of Sydney Council has proposed the scrapping of 62 of the 399 alcohol-free zones (AFZs) across the City of Sydney's local government area. In response to NSW Police Force's objections, Redfern Legal Centre's police powers solicitor David Porter spoke to The Daily Telegraph about the benefit of removing AFZs.

The Victorian Royal Commission into Family Violence has concluded after 13 months, and handed down its final report, including nine recommendations relating to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. 30 March 2016 - NITV's The Point Charmaigne Weldon, Aboriginal Specialist Worker and Assistant Coordinator at RLC's Sydney Women's Domestic Violence Court Advocacy Service, spoke to NITV about the need for a similar response in NSW.

International education, which added more than $19 billion to the economy last year and is behind only iron ore and coal in terms of export value, is being “undermined” by thousands of unreported cases of harassment, underpayment or non-payment suffered by foreign students each year.

In December last year, just before Christmas, the state government announced a plan to redevelop the Waterloo area over the next 20 years. They also announced the need to relocate at least 2,000 public housing tenants as a result, while the redevelopment takes place. The plan follows similar decisions in 2014 and 2015 to sell and redevelop public housing areas in Ivanhoe and Millers Point.

A renewed push for the New South Wales Police pursuit policy to be reviewed has been put forward by legal advocates in the wake of a fatal police chase in Sydney's west. The call comes after the death of three women in their 20s at Marayong in Sydney's West on Saturday when the car they were in crashed, seconds into a pursuit.

RLC's Coordinator of Sydney Women's Domestic Violence Court Advocacy Service, Susan Smith, has led the team for more than a decade. She was recently featured as part of Positively Remarkable People, a project which profiles people working to end violence against women and girls.

There is such a battle to find somewhere to rent – the competition, the cost, the community you want to live in. But what if the colour of your skin made it even harder to rent?

RLC senior solicitor David Porter was interviewed by ABC Radio regarding the delay in updating the NSW Police Force's Safe Driving Policy, having recently represented the family of a young man who died in the course of a high-speed police pursuit at a coronial inquest.

Redfern Legal Centre solicitor Will Dwyer represented Robert Porter when Porter was left with $15,000 in debt when enrolled in a course at a private college by an education broker, who said the course was free and included a laptop computer. Dwyer and Porter were interviews by The Australian as part of the paper's investigation into unscrupulous VET FEE-HELP loans, which sees the vulnerable targeted. The Australian - 12 December 2015 Natasha Bita, Kylar Loussikian

Almost 40 years after the first community legal centre in NSW was established, the CLC spirit has infiltrated other sectors of the industry as pioneers take on roles in different organisations.