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DOOR-TO-DOOR selling, cold calling and other aggressive marketing tactics helped two private colleges sign up more than 10,000 students to expensive taxpayer-funded Business Diplomas in 2013, many of which will never be completed.

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.

The bubonic plague threatened the congregation of Australia's oldest Catholic church a century ago but, in the end, bureaucratic indifference may be its downfall, churchgoers say.

Susan Smith, Coordinator of Sydney Women's Domestic Violence Court Advocacy Service speaks with Legal Aid NSW's Verbals Magazine about the NSW government's new 'Safer Pathway' strategy, an element of the 'It Stops Here' domestic violence Reforms.

SWDVCAS's Safety Action Meeting Coordinator, Sophie Farrell, spoke with Ninah Kopel on 2SER's Razors Edge program, on the 'It Stops Here' Domestic Violence Reforms and the role of the Local Coordination Points and Safety Action Meetings.