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Redfern Legal Centre's employment law solicitor, Sharmilla Bargon, speaks to Triple J's Hack about what to do if you think you're a victim of wage theft.

Chantelle Zentveld, 17, was thrilled when she got an after-school job at the fast-food franchise Subway, but she soon suspected she was being underpaid.

The gap in inequality between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians is depressingly vast in the legal and justice system.

New penalties have been introduced for protesters who block major traffic and infrastructure in NSW.

The family of a 16-year-old Aboriginal boy who was killed in a crash with an unmarked police car have called for an independent investigation into his death.

More than 7000 people have applied to Revenue NSW to overturn a COVID-19 fine but only one in 10 appeals were successful, a new freedom of information request obtained by RLC has revealed. 

RLC is taking a different avenue in challenging rising strip search use, as it announced last week that it’s teamed up with Slater and Gordon to run a class action on behalf of Splendour in the Grass patrons who may have been subjected to an illegal strip search

Redfern Legal Centre and Slater and Gordon Lawyer believe festival-goers who were unlawfully searched by NSW Police could be entitled to “substantial” compensation as part of a monumental class action case.

NSW Police could face a large compensation bill if a class action lawsuit alleging unlawful searches took place at a popular music festival is successful.

Class action lawyers believe hundreds of young Australians were unlawfully strip-searched at Splendour In The Grass festivals between 2016 and 2019, and are calling for these people to join the case against the New South Wales Police.