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Exclusive: Redfern Legal Centre obtained records which show First Nations people were involved in about 45% of the incidents

Police in New South Wales are using force against Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people at a vastly disproportionate rate compared to non-Indigenous people.

Redfern Legal Centre has filed another NSW Supreme Court application seeking the withdrawal of a COVID fine on the grounds of invalidity. 33,000 COVID fines were withdrawn following the first Supreme Court case in late 2022, and 29,000 remain.

On what grounds are the fines being challenged... And what happens if you've already paid the fine?

Redfern Legal Centre (RLC) has filed a new NSW Supreme Court application to cancel a COVID-related fine on the grounds of invalidity.

All remaining COVID-19-related fines in NSW, worth tens of millions of dollars, could be cancelled following a fresh court challenge which aims to have a specific type of fine issued during lockdowns declared invalid.

Human rights lawyer says report provides ‘robust’ evidence of profiling, which police deny.

This is a recording of the RLC webinar in June 2023: Fines and the impact of the recent NSW Supreme Court case.

Some community leaders say report is evidence of officers targeting people based on their ethnicity, which Victoria police rejects.

Police Minister Yasmin Catley has refused to reveal when the family of 95-year-old Clare Nowland was told she had been Tasered by a police officer, as pressure grows on the government to launch an inquiry into the force following a string of high-profile controversies.