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Media Release: Redfern Legal Centre’s International Student Service given a lifeline by StudyNSW

Today the Federal Government has announced that it will not proceed with the Human Rights and Anti-Discrimination Bill, despite recommendations from the Senate enquiry held in January this year.

Redfern Legal Centre and the University of New England have formed a unique partnership to deliver free legal advice to the University's international students via the National Broadband Network.

Today in Sydney public hearings are being held to discuss the Human Rights and Anti-Discrimination Bill. RLC is providing evidence at today's public hearings alongside representatives from the National Association of Community Legal Centres.

A recent report by Redfern Legal Centre and several other organisations, Disability Rights Now was recently submitted to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

On 13 February 2008, the Federal Government apologised 'for the laws and policies... that have inflicted profound grief, suffering and loss on these our fellow Australians.'

In a matter before the federal court this week, Sheila King is seeking a declaration that Jetstar's 'two wheelchair policy' is discriminatory.

When people come to Australia either to settle or just for a while as students, they often have problems with money, their jobs, their housing and buying cars and other goods.