News and Events

Since 2016, NSW Police have conducted an average of over 100 strip searches per year at train stations.

Today the NSW Supreme Court published its reasons in a test case about COVID-19 fines. The decision clarifies the requirements necessary for a fine to be valid, and calls into disrepute all the remaining 29,017 COVID-19 fines that have not been withdrawn.

Redfern Legal Centre (RLC) has launched the Police Accountability Dashboard - a groundbreaking tool and the first of its kind in Australia.

Redfern Legal Centre (RLC) launches the Police Accountability Dashboard - a groundbreaking tool and the first of its kind in Australia.

Legal Aid NSW has published an updated version of its 'Fined Out' booklet, produced in collaboration with Inner City Legal Centre and Redfern Legal Centre.

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. 

The NSW police have been given new powers to detect knives.

A Guide to Driving Laws in NSW Developed by Weave and Redfern Legal Centre

The National Justice Project (NJP), Redfern Legal Centre (RLC), Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) and the Aboriginal Legal Service (ALS) are hosting an expert forum, ‘Mental health call outs: who should respond?’ to consider alternatives to the current approach that sends police to be first responders to a mental health crisis.

Redfern Legal Centre (RLC), the Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) and Aboriginal Legal Service (NSW/ACT) Limited (ALS) are calling for immediate reform of the NSW fines system as a new report reveals that a heavy-handed approach to policing public health orders (PHOs) resulted in 3,628 children in NSW receiving COVID fines.