News and Events

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.

Jacqui Swinburne, RLC Employment Solicitor appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald, Underclass of restaurant employees in Sydney grossly underpaid.

Joanna Shulman, RLC Executive Officer in Disabled woman loses case against Jetstar, ABC News.

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.

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.'

Nicolas Patrick, Chair of RLC, on ABC 7.30 Report, Airline Wheelchair Limit Raises Disability Discrimination Questions.

In the year of its 20th anniversary, the Federal Disability Discrimination Act is under scrutiny thanks to a 78-year old woman taking on an airline policy of not flying more than two people in wheelchairs on the same plane.

The veteran disability rights campaigner, Sheila King, 78, is undaunted by the barrage of hateful comments that followed her unsuccessful court action against Jetstar for its ''two wheelchair'' policy.