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Isabel was fined three times in one week in Sydney. ‘I was like, there’s been some kind of malfunction,’ she said Isabel didn’t even realise she had broken the law until three fines turned up in her mailbox. The fines – collectively worth more than $1,200 and nine demerit points – were all for seatbelt offences within the same week in Sydney while she helped a friend move house. “I was like, there’s been some kind of malfunction. This is impossible. I always wear my seatbelt,” Isabel recalled. On viewing the picture a detection camera had snapped of her, she realised that she had in fact been fined for wearing it incorrectly – she’s only 157cm and often puts the seatbelt under her arm so it doesn’t irritate her neck. “I have since learned that is an offence,” Isabel said.

NSW Police are facing potentially having to pay millions in damages following a landmark ruling in a strip search class action lawsuit.

Following a class action led by leading law firm Slater and Gordon and Redfern Legal Centre, a judgment was today handed down in the Supreme Court of NSW which awarded significant damages to the lead plaintiff, Raya Meredith, for an unlawful strip search undertaken by NSW Police at the Splendour in the Grass Festival in 2018.

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This webinar provides an overview of law and policy in public and community housing.

On the bad days, late at night, “Kate” finds herself back in the tent at a Sydney music festival, a terrified 18-year-old paralysed by fear. She’s been ordered to strip naked, cornered in the small space and is bending over in front of two female police officers searching her for illicit drugs.

New data reveals the number of juveniles in custody in New South Wales has risen by 34 per cent. Indigenous children make up for 60 per cent of the state's minors behind bars.

Taite Collins filmed his partner Collin Burling being surrounded by officers at their public housing block in Sydney’s Waterloo.

A court has knocked back a developer's bid to convert a Sydney boarding house into four luxury homes, after local council rejected its proposal. LFD Developments purchased the 32-room property in Paddington, and served residents with eviction orders last October.