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Redfern Legal Centre has an exciting opportunity for a tax and company lawyer to join our Financial Abuse Service which is expanding to a new integrated, best practice model to assist victim survivors experiencing financial abuse in intimate partner relationships to recover and thrive.
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Redfern Legal Centre (RLC) has released a new report that reveals over a thousand children (aged 10-17 years) have been strip searched by NSW Police within a seven year period from June 2016 to July 2023. The report written by RLC solicitors, Samantha Lee and Josh Raj -‘The Need for Reform: Strip Searches of Children by NSW Police’ collates data about the number of children strip searched by NSW Police. The data was obtained from NSW Police via access to information law.
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17 March 2024 Dear Premier Minns, Don't turn your back on Closing the Gap. Throwing more children in jail will make crime worse in regional communities, not better. Throwing more children in jail will lead to horrific outcomes for communities, families and those children, compounding abuse and trauma. Throwing more children in jail will cause unspeakable damage to Closing The Gap and efforts to create a better future for Aboriginal children in NSW.
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Redfern Legal Centre has an exciting opportunity for a First Nations lawyer to join our Health Justice Partnership practice. This is a dynamic role that involves strong relationships with stakeholders and interesting work across a varied range of areas of law. Permanent, full time or part time role; Salary and benefits: Salary and benefits: $109,625.40 - $130,112.74 p.a. (pro rata for part time) depending on qualifications and experience.  This is an identified role for people of First Nations descent who identify and are accepted as such in the community.
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Redfern Legal Centre stands with a coalition of Aboriginal and legal organisations that say a secret proposal to tighten NSW bail laws for children would make NSW regional communities more dangerous. Multiple government sources have indicated off the record that a proposal to introduce punitive law and order measures – including changes to bail laws that will result in more children going to jail – may be considered as early as this week.
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Let's Talk About Confidentiality is a research report published on 6 March 2024 by Sharmilla Bargon and Regina Featherstone, the inaugural Social Justice Practitioners-in-Residence at The University of Sydney. In August 2023, Bargon and Featherstone set out to find how sexual harassment practitioners were resolving out-of-court sexual harassment settlements and how they approached confidentiality terms.
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