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Redfern Legal Centre is hiring a Practice Lead for our International Student Legal Service. The position involves providing legal advice to international students, supervising volunteer solicitors, and driving policy reform. Applicants must be NSW solicitors with 4+ years post-admission experience, and applications close 2 November.

The federal government is preparing new laws to stop perpetrators of domestic violence from weaponising the tax and superannuation systems against their former partners, following a parliamentary inquiry into financial abuse.

This free online community legal education session will explore ways to resolve complaints regarding phone and internet bills, electricity, and other utilities disputes for victim survivors of intimate partner financial abuse.

Super Consumers Australia, the Economic Abuse Reference Group (EARG), Redfern Legal Centre, Domestic Violence NSW, the Australian Multicultural Women’s Alliance, Safe and Equal and the organisation Each have welcomed the Government’s consultation to prevent perpetrators of domestic and family violence (DFV) from accessing victims-survivors’ superannuation death benefits.

Louise remembers receiving a notice from the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) telling her she had just 21 days to pay about $20,000 of tax debt racked up in her name without her knowing.

A pioneering national study has shed light on the hidden toll of coerced business debt, revealing how business structures are weaponised to perpetrate financial abuse, resulting in long-term economic hardship.

When Adriana moved from Brazil to Australia three years ago she was sold: a world-class education, nice weather, good pay and a prosperous life.

An RLC webinar on financial abuse in family law: Understanding the new reforms

Inflexible property recovery laws let perpetrators dispute who owns belongings, so survivors like Tessa lose their things or face tens of thousands in legal costs, RLC’s Jasmine Opdam says the system needs more flexibility.

There’s been a change in the types of matters coming through the doors of Redfern Legal Centre’s financial abuse service.