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RLC's CEO Joanna Shulman on why Australians need a robust anti-discrimination regime to protect the most vulnerable members of our society. Alternative Law Journal, A 'fair go' for all.

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.

David Porter, RLC Police Powers Solicitor, spoke to Ten News about taser deaths.

David Porter, RLC Police Powers Solicitor on ABC Radio National Face to Face with the Realities of Youth Crime.

RLC's Police Powers solicitor, David Porter, spoke with Eleanor Bell on ABC Radio National's PM show, on measures to address youth crime.

Redfern Legal Centre notes that its submission to the Standing Committee on Law and Justice on the opportunities to consolidate tribunals in NSW was referred to a number of times in the final report released on 22 March 2012.

David Porter, Police Powers solicitor in Sniffer dogs rarely get it right, Sydney Morning Herald.

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.

The impulsive need to condemn is a reaction to our inability to describe why riots happen in some disadvantaged areas and not others. We should be making a concerted effort to separate the process of identifying and punishing criminal acts from understanding why they happen, particularly on a large scale. Instead we get the constant insistence that people are rational moral actors — and that violence has no place in a reasonable society.

David Porter, Solicitor, Greater police powers unfair to ill, homeless, Sydney Morning Herald.