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面向留學生的法律援助 10月6日是國際租客日，Redfern法律中心特別提醒廣大留學生，如遇到租房或生活中其他法律問題，可以向其尋求免費的咨詢和幫助。

在异国他乡留学，如果遇到法律纠纷常常让人不知所措，很多学生认为只能选择“自认倒霉”。其实澳大利亚很多城市都设有免费的法律服务，向包括留学生在内的公众开放。这里介绍的是悉尼的Redfern 法律中心。

Redfern Legal Centre is a proud winner of the 2014 NSW International Student Community Engagement Award for its International Student Advice Service.

In inner-city Sydney, a man in his 50s answers an unexpected knock at the front door. It’s the police, carrying a DNA sample kit and some paperwork. A document explains to the man that he has been classified as an untested former offender, empowering the police to collect his DNA.

RLC's Police Powers solicitor, David Porter, spoke with Angela Lavoipierre on ABC Radio National's AM show, on the NSW Police Force's renewed efforts to build an expanded DNA database of NSW former offenders.

Most of the lawyers at a music trivia night might have started practising law when Soundgarden rather than Schoolboy Q were moving the kids, but a music trivia night is for the young at heart, writes Anthony Jucha.

In Australia, unfair and oppressive rules introduced by some apartment buildings have seen a number of tenants summarily locked out of their homes, often over trivial matters. These tenants have found that local laws offer them little in the way of meaningful protection.

RLC has experienced a recent spike in people contacting us for advice about DNA collection by NSW Police.

Under the NSW Domestic and Family Violence Reforms a new service delivery model will be launched in September 2014.

Redfern Legal Centre enjoyed the opportunity to attend the launch of the Australian Human Rights Commission’s report into pregnancy discrimination in employment on Friday 25thJuly.