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First Nations Graduate Financial Counsellor

Redfern Legal Centre has an exciting opportunity for a First Nations graduate financial counsellor to join Redfern Legal Centre’s integrated and multidisciplinary Financial Abuse Service (FAS).

9 December 2024

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My whole life is in that house’: survivors fleeing domestic violence can lose much more than their home

New South Wales police used force toward Aboriginal people at a vastly disproportionate rate compared to non-Indigenous people, new data has shown.

3 June 2024

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RLC in the media

Sexually transmitted debt: How financial services are fighting financial abuse

There’s been a change in the types of matters coming through the doors of Redfern Legal Centre’s financial abuse service.

6 May 2024

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NSW Government funding commitment for Redfern Legal Centre's Financial Abuse Service

The NSW Government has committed to funding Redfern Legal Centre’s Financial Abuse Service to continue and expand the service as a best practice, holistic model, as recommended in a report published in 2022 by Commbank NextChapter.

19 September 2023

Events

Mortgage Stress and Financial Abuse

Mortgage Stress and Financial Abuse (webinar)

3 May 2023

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Events

Repair your credit report after financial abuse

Victim survivors of financial abuse experience impacts on their credit report... and so their lives ...for years after they leave the relationship behind.

5 April 2023

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RLC in the media

How to keep financial stress out of your relationship

One partner’s bad money habits can cause lasting damage unless early action is taken. Rising cost of living pressures due to higher interest rates are hurting women’s financial progress and increasing the risk of relationship debt.

21 March 2023

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Events

Family law remedies to address financial abuse (webinar series)

1 February 2023

RLC in the media

Domestic Violence Group Warns Proposed Coercive Control Laws Could Escalate Abuse

Organisations across NSW call for the NSW Government's Crimes Legislation Amendment (Coercive Control) Bill 2022 to be reviewed.

7 November 2022

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RLC in the media

NSW needs to address coercive control, but this rushed law is not the way to do it

This criminal offence could end up retraumatising victim survivors and criminalising people who are most in need of protection, say RLC's Gayatri Nair.

3 November 2022

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First Nations Graduate Financial Counsellor

My whole life is in that house’: survivors fleeing domestic violence can lose much more than their home

Sexually transmitted debt: How financial services are fighting financial abuse

NSW Government funding commitment for Redfern Legal Centre's Financial Abuse Service

Mortgage Stress and Financial Abuse

Repair your credit report after financial abuse

How to keep financial stress out of your relationship

Family law remedies to address financial abuse (webinar series)

Domestic Violence Group Warns Proposed Coercive Control Laws Could Escalate Abuse

NSW needs to address coercive control, but this rushed law is not the way to do it

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