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* 13 February 2012, 10:30am-12:00pm – Celebrating the National Apology to Indigenous Australians
RLC is holding a morning tea to celebrate this important step forward in Australian history. We invite the local Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander to come and have cake and yarn.
See Media Release for more details.
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* Redfern Legal Centre wants your art on the cover for the new edition of the Sharehousing Survival Guide! See competition details, how to enter and the artwork from the previous edition.
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December 2011 - Margaret Jones wins 2011 Senior Highly Commended Volunteer of the Year Award and Tanya Plibersek’s Volunteer of the Year Award |
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November 2011 – RLC Tenancy Teams Wins TAAP AwardsRLC’s Inner Sydney Tenants’ Advice and Advocacy Service won several awards at the Tenants’ Advice and Advocacy Program Network Meeting. Phoenix van Dyke won the Dead Rabbit Award for her contributions to policy work and the TAAPSTAR Award for work at the Consumer, Trader and Tenancy Tribunal. Natalie Bradshaw won the People’s Choice Award for casework. Congratulations to ISTAAS! |
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November 2011 - Margaret Jones wins Senior Volunteer of the YearMargaret is 83 years old and a fabulous asset to the volunteer team at RLC. Margaret won the 2011 Sydney Inner West Senior Volunteer of the Year Award. Congratulations Margaret! |
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* New Statewide Legal Advice Service for International Students at Redfern Legal Centre
RLC started its new legal advice service for international students in NSW on 5 October 2011.
The free, confidential service operates each Wednesday evening from 6:30pm at 73 Pitt St Redfern. Face to face and telephone appointments must be booked by calling 9698 7645. Free interpreters can also be provided.
The service will offer:
- Legal advice on most areas of law. (Advice will not be provided in commercial and conveyancing matters, neighbourhood disputes or for male defendants in Apprehended Violence Order matters.)
- A migration agent to advise students on migration issues associated with their legal problem. (Migration advice will not be provided on permanent residence applications.)
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* Redfern Legal Centre, together with the Metropolitan Local Aboriginal Land Council, Wirringa Baiya Aboriginal Women's Legal Centre and Mudgin-gal Aboriginal Women's Centre announce a forum on 15 September 2011 for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to discuss what they want to ask for in the consultation about recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the Australian Constitution. For more information, please click here,
Following the consultation RLC drafted a submission to the expert panel. That submission can be found here...
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* On 4 August, as part of National Homelessness Week, RLC launched its new Boarders and Lodgers Legal Kit at Parliament House. The Lord Mayor Clover Moore MP, who funded the kit through her Lord Mayor Salary Trust, launched the kit. The Kit highlights the lack of effective legal protection for Boarders and Lodgers in NSW.
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* Joanna Shulman, RLC CEO, is the guest author of the a recent blog for the
equality reform project. To read the Blog, please click here.
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* RLC congratulates Helen Campbell, previous CEO of Redfern Legal Centre, for being awarded an Order of Australia Medal for her services to the law and to the Redfern Community!
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* The NGO CRPD Shadow Report Project Group, comprising leading disability and human rights organisations, including RLC, is close to finishing its shadow report to the United Nations. It plans to release it for endorsement by
Australian NGOs in September 2011. See attached communiqué.
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* RLC conducted a Client Satisfaction Survey in November 2010, please click here for more details.
* For latest financial tidbits, please click here.
* Want to see RLC submissions to relevant government authorities? Please click here.
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RLC Media Releases
RLC in the Newspapers
equality reform project. To read the Blog, please click here.
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* RLC congratulates Helen Campbell, previous CEO of Redfern Legal Centre, for being awarded an Order of Australia Medal for her services to the law and to the Redfern Community!
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* The NGO CRPD Shadow Report Project Group, comprising leading disability and human rights organisations, including RLC, is close to finishing its shadow report to the United Nations. It plans to release it for endorsement by
Australian NGOs in September 2011. See attached communiqué.
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* RLC conducted a Client Satisfaction Survey in November 2010, please click here for more details.
* For latest financial tidbits, please click here.
* Want to see RLC submissions to relevant government authorities? Please click here.
RLC in Hansard
RLC Media Releases
RLC in the Newspapers
RLC e-Bulletins