Papers and submissions

Submissions authored by RLC’s Financial Abuse Service: Submission to the Attorney General’s Department’s consultation on a bankruptcy Minimal Asset Procedure (August 2024)

Our submission to provide feedback to assist the Legal and Constitutional Affairs Legislation Committee in its review of the Family Law Amendment Bill 2024 (the Bill).

RLC’s submission to the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Social Policy and Legal Affairs inquiry into family violence orders. The submission and recommendations draw heavily from RLC’s expertise in the field of family violence.

RLC's submission discusses current and future housing needs including affordable social and Aboriginal housing, and Waterloo's social housing community through redevelopment and relocations.

Financial Rights Legal Centre, Consumer Action Law Centre and RLC have made joint submissions on further changes needed to protect the medically and financially vulnerable.

RLC and Kingsford Legal Centre and have jointly made submissions to the Senate Select Committee on Job Security.

RLC’s policy submission in response to the Interim Report to the Australian Government strongly supports the enshrinement of a First Nations Voice in the Australian Constitution. 

EARG believes the criminalisation of coercive control won’t necessarily achieve better outcomes for victim-survivors.

RLC's submission makes 16 recommendations in response to concerns identified during the 2016 Inquiry, and provides client case studies that further highlight our concerns.

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