News and Events

We are recruiting for a First Nations Intake Officer is a dynamic and people-focused role, requiring an understanding of the challenges faced by people experiencing disadvantage in our local catchment and statewide, and the diverse services offered by Redfern Legal Centre.

We are recruiting for an Intake Manager a dynamic and people-focused role, requiring an understanding of the challenges faced by people experiencing disadvantage in our local catchment and statewide, and the diverse services offered by Redfern Legal Centre. The Intake Manager plays a critical role in ensuring that every person who approaches Redfern Legal Centre for assistance is provided a trauma-informed, respectful and culturally safe service.

Today the NSW Supreme Court published its reasons in a test case about COVID-19 fines. The decision clarifies the requirements necessary for a fine to be valid, and calls into disrepute all the remaining 29,017 COVID-19 fines that have not been withdrawn.

Redfern Legal Centre (RLC) launches the Police Accountability Dashboard - a groundbreaking tool and the first of its kind in Australia.

The National Justice Project (NJP), Redfern Legal Centre (RLC), Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) and the Aboriginal Legal Service (ALS) are hosting an expert forum, ‘Mental health call outs: who should respond?’ to consider alternatives to the current approach that sends police to be first responders to a mental health crisis.

Another music festival cancellation shows the effect of over-policing on the music festival industry.

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.

The NSW Police Force strip-searched 31 girls (10-17 years) between 1 July 2021 and 30 June 2023. Three girls were aged 12 and six girls were aged 13.

Redfern Legal Centre is continuing to pursue a public interest outcome in its second COVID fines case.

Today, the second COVID Fine case brought by Redfern Legal Centre was back in the Supreme Court.