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The impulsive need to condemn is a reaction to our inability to describe why riots happen in some disadvantaged areas and not others. We should be making a concerted effort to separate the process of identifying and punishing criminal acts from understanding why they happen, particularly on a large scale. Instead we get the constant insistence that people are rational moral actors — and that violence has no place in a reasonable society.

The political posturing on law and order in the UK is all too familiar. Just as in Redfern and Macquarie Fields, the connections between crime, policing and poverty are fraught, writes Adam Brereton.

As part of National Homeless Persons Week, Redfern Legal Centre launched their new Boarders Legal Kit. The Lord Mayor Clover Moore MP, who funded the kit through her Lord Mayor Salary Trust, launched the kit.

As part of National Homelessness Week, RLC launched its new Boarders and Lodgers Legal Kit at Parliament House.

By all means let's investigate privacy abuse, including that of government ("A privacy probe? Yes indeed", Editorial, 28/7).

When people come to Australia either to settle or just for a while as students, they often have problems with money, their jobs, their housing and buying cars and other goods.

Joanna Shulman, RLC CEO, is the guest author of the recent blog for the Equality Law Reform Project. To read her entry and the blog, please click here.

RLC's submission was referenced in Riddle of the crossed telephone lines, Sydney Morning Herald.

Can consumers expect better service and complaints handling from their phone company? And if not, who can they turn to for help? They are among the questions the Australian Communications and Media Authority will address in its draft report Reconnecting the Customer that it will publish today.

David Porter, Solicitor, Greater police powers unfair to ill, homeless, Sydney Morning Herald.