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A webinar: For public and private tenants who experience domestic violence, there are special provisions in NSW tenancy law.

Years of advocacy, community organising, and relentless efforts by renters, housing advocates, and the NSW network of local Tenants’ Advice and Advocacy Services paved the way for the passing of the Residential Tenancies Amendment Bill 2024.

This webinar provides a comprehensive overview of the termination process for tenants in both the private market and social/public housing.

The dishes are piling up by the sink. They haven’t cleaned the bathroom in weeks. Then you’re asked to cover their rent. When sharing a house can go horribly wrong.

An overview of some common money-related issues that arise in public and community housing in NSW.

Redfern Legal Centre welcomes the introduction of a world-first ‘workplace justice’ visa that will enable exploited migrants to stay in Australia for a short period to enforce their workplace rights. 

Let's Talk About Confidentiality is a research report published on 6 March 2024 by Sharmilla Bargon and Regina Featherstone, the inaugural Social Justice Practitioners-in-Residence at The University of Sydney. In August 2023, Bargon and Featherstone set out to find how sexual harassment practitioners were resolving out-of-court sexual harassment settlements and how they approached confidentiality terms.

This webinar provides an overview of law and policy in public and community housing.

Help your clients work out whether they are getting paid properly at work, and what to do about it if they aren't.

Mould has always been an issue for Nada Suzal’s apartment, but four years ago, it turned catastrophic. The toxic fungi crept up the walls of her public housing unit in Waverley and grew in spatters across her roof. It lined her bathroom window and took over her wardrobe, ruining her clothes. Mushrooms sprouted from the walls.