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Let's Talk About Confidentiality is a research report published on 6 March 2024 by Sharmilla Bargon and Regina Featherstone, the inaugural Social Justice Practitioners-in-Residence at The University of Sydney. In August 2023, Bargon and Featherstone set out to find how sexual harassment practitioners were resolving out-of-court sexual harassment settlements and how they approached confidentiality terms.

Redfern Legal Centre (RLC) welcomes the Albanese Government’s announcement of reforms to assist temporary visa holders experiencing workplace exploitation. 

Police have been questioned about when they are able to use force after a 14-year-old Indigenous boy was hospitalised following his arrest.

A coalition of community legal centres including RLC has sent an open letter to government calling for improvements to a proposed discrimination law Bill.

In September, recommendations were tabled in parliament to make changes to sexual harassment laws.

A coalition of community legal centres is seeking a key commitment from the government to provide effective visa protections for migrant workers.

An open letter calling on the government to consider supporting key legal reforms to reduce the exploitation of vulnerable workers.

Australian laws are preventing many people from obtaining justice through the court's new research from the Grata Fund says. 

Kieran Pender, a senior lawyer at the Human Rights Law Centre, and RLC employment law volunteer, was named Pro Bono/Community Lawyer of the Year at the 30 Under 30 Awards 2022

From 1 July 2022, the national minimum wage will be increased from $20.33 to $21.38 per hour. Casual employees covered by the minimum wage get at least a 25% loading on top of this.