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Not all renters are treated equally under NSW tenancy laws. There are many tenants in fairly conventional renting situations who would be surprised to learn that NSW state tenancy laws don’t apply to them.

The RLC Police Powers Clinic is an educational program run in conjunction with the University of New South Wales. UNSW students spend one day a week at RLC over a semester, putting their legal knowledge into practice working on police issues.

In response to recent reforms to the Children and Young Persons (Care and Protection) Act, RLC has received funding to become a Care Partner.

Over a period of a couple of months in late 2014, Jessica Minshall sat in with Redfern Legal Centre to conduct a series of recordings about the Centre. Jessica captured the inner workings of RLC, and in particular the Centre's Police Powers practice, run by David Porter.

There are a hundred angry men in this thing" warned Deputy Police Commissioner Nick Kaldas this week, appearing for a second time before a parliamentary inquiry trying to penetrate a murky 15-year old scandal which has shaken the NSW Police Force to its core.

The new consorting provisions, introduced into the Crimes Act in 2012, allow police to label otherwise lawful associations a crime and to prosecute on that simple basis. The consorting provisions lack appropriate definitions, restrictions, and standards.

DIRTY dishes in the sink, leaving the toilet seat up? Almost everyone has a bad flatmate story but these ones really take the cake.

Domestic violence in Australia remains an "epidemic" while other violent crimes decline, leading to calls for more coordination between governments and the community.

International students are being exploited in workplaces across Sydney, paid as little as $8 an hour by employers who take advantage of their desperate need for work.

Are you a social housing tenant in Sydney? Want to tell the government about your experience as a tenant and your views on social housing?