News and Events

The State Coroner has released her recommendations following the conclusion of the Le Marseny inquest today. Adam Le Marseny died in May 2011 while being held in Corrective Services cells housed within the Sydney Police Centre, Surry Hills.

Today in Sydney public hearings are being held to discuss the Human Rights and Anti-Discrimination Bill. RLC is providing evidence at today's public hearings alongside representatives from the National Association of Community Legal Centres.

Inquiry into the partial defence of provocation The Excessive Force: Tasers and police culture Better protection for Boarders and Lodgers

Redfern Legal Centre welcomes the new domestic violence justice strategy announced yesterday by Attorney General Greg Smith, Police Minister Mike Gallacher and Minister for Family and Community Services Pru Goward.

Today is International Human Rights Day and the anniversary of Paul Keating's historic Redfern Address. Keating saw Redfern as an appropriate place to contemplate our human rights record as a nation.

A recent report by Redfern Legal Centre and several other organisations, Disability Rights Now was recently submitted to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

White Ribbon Day (25 Novermber) is a day led by men who seek to change the attitudes and behaviours that lead to be perpetuate violence against women.

Right to silence to be wound back in NSW Announcement of NSW Domestic and Family Violence Framework Domestic Violence and Tenancy Workshop for Community Workers

The partial defence of provocation - blaming the victim? Bail report released The Sharehousing Survival Guide online

Newspaper responsible for offensive reader comments on website RLC win in responsible lending complaint Lack of independent investigation into shooting of Indigenous teenagers