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New Executive Director for CLCNSW

Community Legal Centres NSW (CLCNSW) has appointed Tim Leech as their new Executive Director.

2 February 2018

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Australia Day: It's Time To Change the Date

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.

24 January 2018

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Tip-Off: RLC's UNSW Police Powers Clinic

As part of RLC's UNSW Police Powers clinic, held during Spring semester 2017, students were asked to research and create two short legal information videos targeting their peers.

28 November 2017

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Case Study: Offensive Language

Mr Black was walking along a quiet residential street in Sydney. George usually takes this road to TAFE in order to avoid the busy streets.

21 November 2017

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Policing Young People in NSW: A study of the Suspect Targeting Management Plan

RLC is proud to have supported the development of the first publicly available study on the New South Wales Police Force Suspect Targeting Management Plan (STMP).

21 November 2017

Media releases

RLC Media Release: Offensive language arrest found to be unlawful; court rules that police provoked student with “unjustified interference with civil liberties”

On 20 November 2017 the District Court held that an arrest for the statement “none of your fucking business” was unlawful, because the police failed to consider any alternatives to arrest.

20 November 2017

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Submission: Social Services Legislation Amendment (Housing Affordability) Bill 2017

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.

10 November 2017

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New report – Monitoring Racial Profiling: Introducing a scheme to prevent unlawful stops and searches by Victoria Police

The Police Stop Data Working Group have released a new report calling on Victoria Police and the government to take urgent steps to monitor racial profiling in police stops and searches.

8 September 2017

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New USyd legal clinic launches at RLC

A new student clinic at RLC is giving students from the University of Sydney practical experience in employment, discrimination and human rights law.

1 August 2017

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UNSW Police Powers Clinic

The Police Powers Clinic is an experiential learning program located at RLC, run in partnership with UNSW. The clinic is convened by UNSW's Dr Vicki Sentas.

29 July 2017

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New Executive Director for CLCNSW

Australia Day: It's Time To Change the Date

Tip-Off: RLC's UNSW Police Powers Clinic

Case Study: Offensive Language

Policing Young People in NSW: A study of the Suspect Targeting Management Plan

RLC Media Release: Offensive language arrest found to be unlawful; court rules that police provoked student with “unjustified interference with civil liberties”

Submission: Social Services Legislation Amendment (Housing Affordability) Bill 2017

New report – Monitoring Racial Profiling: Introducing a scheme to prevent unlawful stops and searches by Victoria Police

New USyd legal clinic launches at RLC

UNSW Police Powers Clinic

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