News and Events

Our November e-Bulletin highlights work RLC is doing in partnership with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.

RLC has joined leading consumer advocacy organisations, charities, community, legal and family violence organisations, unions and financial counsellors in signing an open letter opposing Government plans to axe safe lending laws.

The contributions of RLC's Financial Abuse Service NSW staff were among those acknowledged in the Parliament of NSW during the second reading of the Crimes (Domestic and Personal Violence) Amendment (Coercive and Controlling Behaviour) Bill 2020.

RLC has provided responses to the proposed suite of changes to Australia’s consumer credit framework contained in the National Consumer Credit Protection Act 2009 (Cth).

At the Redfern Legal Centre (RLC) AGM, Board and staff paid tribute to outgoing Board member Amy Monro, who stepped down after 8 years as Chair. Kerry O'Brien, was welcomed as Amy's successor, and is the first Koori Chair of the RLC Board.

New research from UNSW's Gendered Violence Research Network (GVRN) explores current knowledge of financial abuse in Australia and looks at ways financial services can better support victim-survivors.

In 2019, Redfern Legal Centre (RLC) received a grant from City of Sydney to commission an original First Nations artwork.

There will be 300,000 fewer international students — half the pre-coronavirus numbers — in Australia by July 2021 if current travel restrictions remain in place, a new report from the Mitchell Institute projects.

Some reflections on NAIDOC Week 2020 from RLC's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Access Worker.

Democracy in Colour has launched a series of intervention workshops to empower people to intervene when they see racial abuse.