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This factsheet outlines your options for dealing with a penalty notice in NSW, including paying in full or by instalments, seeking an internal review, electing to go to court, applying for hardship assistance such as a Work and Development Order, a 50% reduction, or a write-off, while warning that ignoring a fine leads to extra fees and enforcement action such as licence suspension.

RLC backs prohibiting strip searches of children, queries the Bill's constitutional validity, and recommends Commonwealth-State reform, statutory safeguards, and amended protections under the Crimes Act 1914 (Cth).

This submission focuses on the application of the Bill’s consent requirements and proposed fair and reasonable test to ongoing access to consumers’ banking transaction data.  It also highlights the risks that such access may create for people experiencing financial abuse.

Redfern Legal Centre supports the NSW coercive control reform but argues that criminalisation alone is insufficient—success depends on changing police culture, systems, and practice to properly identify and respond to financial and economic abuse as a core component of coercive control. The submission recommends extending the mental element to include recklessness and broadening the offence to all domestic relationships in principle, but only after evidence shows the current offence is being implemented safely and effectively.

RLC welcomes the opportunity to respond to the inquiry, noting it will focus on the more covert forms of racism embedded in systems and institutions, rather than only overt incidents. Given RLC's expertise, the submission addresses Terms of Reference 5 and 6. RLC is based in Redfern, NSW, and while some services are catchment-based locally, others are statewide; it doesn't provide legal services outside NSW but does advocate on laws and policies more broadly, including federal ones. The submission draws on NSW casework and was prepared in consultation with ACCOs and First Nations leaders, including Louise Hammond ("Aunty Lou," CEO of MYRC), and clients whose case studies are included.

This factsheet explains your basic rights and responsibilities if you are stopped by police while driving. It outlines when police can pull you over, what information you must provide, and your rights during searches, testing, and other interactions. It provides general information and is not a substitute for legal advice

This factsheet by Redfern Legal Centre explains your rights when police come to your home.

This is a template for a formal complaint to the Law Enforcement Conduct Commission about alleged misconduct by officers of the NSW Police Force.

This is a template for a formal complaint letter to the NSW Police Force, asking them to investigate alleged misconduct by police officers.

This factsheet explains how to prepare and submit a written complaint about misconduct by the NSW Police Force, including what to include and where to lodge it.