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Redfern Legal Centre and Slater and Gordon Lawyer believe festival-goers who were unlawfully searched by NSW Police could be entitled to “substantial” compensation as part of a monumental class action case.

NSW Police could face a large compensation bill if a class action lawsuit alleging unlawful searches took place at a popular music festival is successful.

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

In August, ABC Radio National aired highlights from an online discussion calling for policing and justice reform in Australia, in response to the Black Lives Matter movement. Facilitated by Larissa Behrendt (UTS). Broadcast by Speaking Out, ABC Radio National.

Are boarding houses having an impact on the affordable housing crisis or offering improved conditions for tenants? Gavin Coote from ABC Radio AM reports, speaking to RLC's tenancy coordinator, Nicole Kennedy and other guests.

9 October 2017 – RLC Tenants' Advocate Kimberley Mackenzie speaks to The Feed on SBS TV about changes to the Victorian rental laws, due to be introduced in 2018.

The Statutory Review of the Residential Tenancies Act 2010: Discussion Paper (October 2015) states 47% of renters in NSW either lost some or all of their bond during the previous financial year.

With the help of Redfern Legal Centre, Millers Point resident Sally Parslow is filing in the NSW Supreme Court to try to prevent eviction from her home.​ By Lisa Visentin. Published by Sydney Morning Herald, 15 April 2017.​

On 28 February radio 2SER convened a panel of legal and human rights experts to dissect findings the 18C Inquiry Report, tabled in Parliament on 28 February 2017.

RLC's Millers Point Tenants' Advocates spoke to Background Briefing's Ann Arnold about the sale of landmark social housing in Sydney and the resulting consequences for long term tenants.