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New figures released by the Redfern Legal Centre (RLC) via freedom of information laws revealed that in the past year, NSW Police have continued to strip search dozens of children. This is despite public demands to cease and desist, and three official inquiries in late 2019 condemning the practice. Alec Smart reports for Sydney Sentinel.

In the past year, NSW police officers have strip-searched 96 children and more than 20 percent of them were Indigenous.

Despite everything else this year has thrown at us, it seems the controversial strip-searching of children by New South Wales’ police continues unabated. As The Guardian’s Michael McGowan has noted, 96 have been searched in 2020, with some as young as eleven.

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Community groups are mounting a combined push for more social and affordable housing for Aboriginal people in inner Sydney, as a wave of development and rise in property prices scatter the area's once-thriving population. Megan Gorrey reports for the Sydney Morning Herald

Festival drug users being fined has saved the criminal justice system nearly $200,000 but experts say the scheme could be unfair to those in disadvantaged circumstances. Laura Chung reports for The Sydney Morning Herald.

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In July, a human rights report endorsed by RLC and over 200 other Australian not-for-profit and community organisations was submitted to the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Commission.

People in NSW who have received a COVID-19 on-the-spot fine can contact RLC for free legal advice.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people represented 12% of police strip searches in NSW in two years despite comprising just over 3% of the population. Michael McGowan reports for Guardian Australia