News and Events

Redfern Legal Centre welcomes the release of the Final Report of the Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC) Inquiry into the Incarceration Rate of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, tabled in Parliament on Wednesday 28 March 2018.

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.

More than half the people on a secretive New South Wales police blacklist are Aboriginal, the state’s top law enforcement officer has revealed. Michael McGowan reports for The Guardian, 11 November 2017.​

A new report has found that the Suspect Target Management Plan (STMP), a NSW police policy that aims to predict and prevent future crime, is instead causing harm and targeting Aboriginal people and those under the age of 25. Laura Morelli​ reports for NITV, 27 October 2017.

In May 2015, Redfern Legal Centre and Sydney Local Health District partnered to establish the first hospital-based Health Justice Partnership (HJP) in New South Wales.

On 17 May, Susan Smith, the Coordinator of RLC's Sydney Women’s Domestic Violence Court Advocacy Service (Sydney WDVCAS), spoke at the launch of the new Family Advocacy and Support Services (FASS) program.

The Health Justice Partnership addresses the legal dimension to patient health and wellbeing.

Sydney WDVCAS has recently made a submission to the statutory review of the Victims Rights and Support Act 2013.

August 2016 - Jane Southward of the Law Society of NSW Journal speaks with Redfern Legal Centre's Sue-Ellen Hills about her role as a solicitor with the unique Health Justice Partnership between RLC and Royal Prince Alfred Hospital.

Wednesday, 20 July 2016 Safer Pathway, the NSW Government’s innovative collaborative service delivery response to domestic violence is expanding into the inner west of Sydney.