News and Events

The High Court has reserved a decision on whether Aboriginality can be used as a defence in sentencing. The question has not been considered for the past 30 years, and the Court granted special leave to hear the case of William David Bugmy.

Redfern Legal Centre celebrated NAIDOC week this year by holding stalls at community events at the National Centre for Indigenous Excellence, the Aboriginal Medical Service and Wulla Mulla Family and Community Support Centre.

Redfern Legal Centre and the University of New England have formed a unique partnership to deliver free legal advice to the University's international students via the National Broadband Network.

Today is International Human Rights Day and the anniversary of Paul Keating's historic Redfern Address. Keating saw Redfern as an appropriate place to contemplate our human rights record as a nation.

RLC is holding a morning tea to celebrate this important step forward in Australian history. We invite the local Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population to come and have a cake and a yarn.

RLC has started its new legal advice service for students in NSW on 5 October 2011.

Redfern Legal Centre, together with the Metropolitan Local Aboriginal Land Council, Wirringa Baiya Aboriginal Women's Legal Centre and the Mudgin-gal Aboriginal Women's Centre announce a forum on 15 September 2011.

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 Schulman, CEO, in Landlords 'demanded sex' from students, Sydney Morning Herald.