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RLC's Coordinator of Sydney Women's Domestic Violence Court Advocacy Service, Susan Smith, has led the team for more than a decade. She was recently featured as part of Positively Remarkable People, a project which profiles people working to end violence against women and girls.

There is such a battle to find somewhere to rent – the competition, the cost, the community you want to live in. But what if the colour of your skin made it even harder to rent?

RLC senior solicitor David Porter was interviewed by ABC Radio regarding the delay in updating the NSW Police Force's Safe Driving Policy, having recently represented the family of a young man who died in the course of a high-speed police pursuit at a coronial inquest.

Payday loan/consumer lease industry shake up Waterloo redevelopment announced

21 December 2015 Following the decision to build a new train station at Waterloo, rather than at the University of Sydney, the NSW Government have announced plans to redevelop a large area of the local social housing.

21 December 2015 New anti-social behaviour tenancy laws for social housing tenants came into effect on 18 December 2015.

17 December 2015 Victims of domestic violence are vulnerable to workplace discrimination, potentially amounting to exclusion from work.

16 December 2015 RLC senior solicitor David Porter was able to bring a case-based, legal advocate’s perspective to the Police Integrity Panel at the recent Australian Public Sector Anti-Corruption Conference in November.

16 December 2015 It has been five years since the NSW Police Force was tasked with improving the safety of police, drivers, passengers and innocent bystanders with a policy review of its Safe Driving Policy. NSW is still waiting for its release.

16 December 2015 In November 2014, Susan Smith, RLC’s Coordinator of Sydney WDVCAS, was appointed to the newly reformed Domestic Violence Death Review Team at the NSW Coroner’s Court.