News and Events

Redfern Legal Centre has an exciting opportunity for an Employment Law Solicitor or Senior Solicitor to join our dynamic team and contribute to the Employment Rights Legal Service (ERLS). The state-wide legal service provides legal assistance to marginalised workers and in particular migrant workers and engages in law reform and policy work to effect change.

Redfern Legal Centre welcomes the introduction of a world-first ‘workplace justice’ visa that will enable exploited migrants to stay in Australia for a short period to enforce their workplace rights. 

Redfern Legal Centre stands with a coalition of Aboriginal and legal organisations that say a secret proposal to tighten NSW bail laws for children would make NSW regional communities more dangerous. Multiple government sources have indicated off the record that a proposal to introduce punitive law and order measures – including changes to bail laws that will result in more children going to jail – may be considered as early as this week.

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.

Help your clients work out whether they are getting paid properly at work, and what to do about it if they aren't.

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.