Papers and submissions

Redfern Legal Centre has a long history of providing assistance, advice and advocacy to the local community, including many clients with problems involving access to energy.

From August 2009 to June 2010, RLC undertook a community legal education pilot project about credit and debt in the Marrickville LGA targeting the CALD communities in that municipality.

Read RLC's submission.

RLC's submission focused upon three key issues of access and equity in the financial system for vulnerable and disadvantaged consumers - financial exclusion, financial hardship and financial literacy.

RLC addresses in its submission the following topics: anti-discrimination law; general protections provisions of the FW Act; employment law; and particular disability communities.

A recurring hindrance to efficient debt recovery process is the pursuit of ‘unrecoverable’ debts.

It is our position that a statutory cause of action for serious invasions of privacy is a necessary and overdue legislative reform that enhances and protects an individual's right to privacy in the 21st century.

Redfern Legal Centre has a long history of providing legal services to members of the local community who identify as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander, or have a culturally and linguistically diverse background.

Our submission is grounded in our experience with tenants in the Sydney area, and will focus primarily on the impact that current and proposed HNSW and LAHC policies have, and could have on socially disadvantaged tenants.

In this submission, we describe the prevalence and the impact of racial vilification, using a number of case examples. We recommend the retention of the existing s 18C.