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Redfern Legal Centre (RLC) has filed a new NSW Supreme Court application to cancel a COVID-related fine on the grounds of invalidity.

All remaining COVID-19-related fines in NSW, worth tens of millions of dollars, could be cancelled following a fresh court challenge which aims to have a specific type of fine issued during lockdowns declared invalid.

Human rights lawyer says report provides ‘robust’ evidence of profiling, which police deny.

The NSW government wants universities to take more responsibility for housing international students as Sydney braces for tens of thousands of arrivals for the return of face-to-face learning.

This is a recording of the RLC webinar in June 2023: Fines and the impact of the recent NSW Supreme Court case.

Some community leaders say report is evidence of officers targeting people based on their ethnicity, which Victoria police rejects.

Universities and Australia’s biggest student housing provider are using a loophole in legislation to avoid tough laws designed to protect renters.

Police Minister Yasmin Catley has refused to reveal when the family of 95-year-old Clare Nowland was told she had been Tasered by a police officer, as pressure grows on the government to launch an inquiry into the force following a string of high-profile controversies.

Video evidence of police using Tasers will only be collected when “circumstances permit” because a new generation of the technology being rolled out across the state does not have an inbuilt camera, prompting concerns about police accountability.

Indigenous community leaders in Walgett in western NSW are supporting calls for an investigation into police enforcement of COVID-19 fines.