News and Events

Redfern Legal Centre has an exciting opportunity for a financial counsellor to join Redfern Legal Centre’s integrated and multidisciplinary Financial Abuse Service.

Redfern Legal Centre has an exciting opportunity for an experienced lawyer to lead the legal practice of our Financial Abuse Service. The Financial Abuse Service is an innovative and dynamic statewide practice with a specialist and integrated approach that provides holistic legal and non-legal support to clients, increasing their safety and wellbeing and leading to financial independence and empowerment.  We also drive systemic change through test cases, advocacy and law reform. 

The National Justice Project (NJP), Redfern Legal Centre (RLC), Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) and the Aboriginal Legal Service (ALS) are hosting an expert forum, ‘Mental health call outs: who should respond?’ to consider alternatives to the current approach that sends police to be first responders to a mental health crisis.

A Guide to Driving Laws in NSW Developed by Weave and Redfern Legal Centre

Redfern Legal Centre has an exciting opportunity for a lawyer to be part of our high impact police accountability practice and work with the diverse community of Redfern in our generalist practice.  Permanent, full time role; Salary and benefits: $107,920.02 - $128,084.03 p.a. depending on qualifications and experience. 

Redfern Legal Centre (RLC), the Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) and Aboriginal Legal Service (NSW/ACT) Limited (ALS) are calling for immediate reform of the NSW fines system as a new report reveals that a heavy-handed approach to policing public health orders (PHOs) resulted in 3,628 children in NSW receiving COVID fines.

A trial date has been set by the NSW Supreme Court for the landmark strip search class action that will challenge the legality of strip searches conducted by NSW Police at music festivals over a six-year period.

Redfern Legal Centre has an exciting opportunity for a senior policy and advocacy officer to join our Financial Abuse Service which is expanding to a new integrated, best practice model to assist victim survivors experiencing financial abuse in intimate partner relationships to recover and thrive. 18 month contract, full time or part time role; Salary and benefits: $125,917 – $128,800/annum (pro rata for part time) depending on qualifications and experience. 

Another music festival cancellation shows the effect of over-policing on the music festival industry.

Redfern Legal Centre (RLC) has released a new report that reveals over a thousand children (aged 10-17 years) have been strip searched by NSW Police within a seven year period from June 2016 to July 2023. The report written by RLC solicitors, Samantha Lee and Josh Raj -‘The Need for Reform: Strip Searches of Children by NSW Police’ collates data about the number of children strip searched by NSW Police. The data was obtained from NSW Police via access to information law.