Commentary
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NSW Government supports StreetCare’s public toilets recommendation
StreetCare is successfully influencing decision-makers on access to public toilets.
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StreetCare and HPLS improve access to critical housing supports
Many people in critical need of a home will have easier access to NSW Government housing and Temporary Accommodation.
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StreetCare’s Anna Nagel wins NCOSS lived experience award
Anna won the Amir Bodenstein lived experience award, named in honour of a fellow StreetCare member.
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Our continued commitment to the Uluru Statement from the Heart
On the second anniversary of the Voice referendum, we remain steadfast in our support for the Uluru Statement from the Heart.
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Australia’s Net Zero Plan: A Critical Moment for Inclusive Climate Action
Our Energy and Water Justice team is working to ensure our energy system transition is fast, just and focussed on solutions that work for people.
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JEC wins award for housing and mental ill-health lived experience committee
The Housing and Mental Health Agreement Lived Experience Committee has been recognised for its work at the The Mental Health Service Awards of Australia and New Zealand.
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Alternative First Responders: Housing not hyper-policing
People with lived experience of homelessness report excessive and unjust policing. Policy Officer Alannah Daly outlines why we need a different response.
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Anita Heiss shows how storytelling can help drive truth-telling
Anita Heiss spoke to Nicole Abadee about how truth-telling about the law has helped shape her fiction.
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StreetCare marks homelessness week with special performance
StreetCare members shared their stories through drama, music, puppet shows and photography at an event hosted by Belvoir St Theatre.
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Online forum: LGBTQ discrimination in religious schools and organisations
Join Anglican Minister and academic Rev Dr Angus McLeay in conversation with discrimination law expert and LGBTQ+ advocate Alastair Lawrie to explore the intersection between ‘religious freedom’ and anti-LGBTQ+ discrimination in Australian religious schools and organisations. WHEN: 1-2pm, Tuesday 19 August 2025RSVP: [email protected] —————————————————————————— In many parts of Australia, the law permits religious schools and social…
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HPLS Solicitor Jeremy Rea wins Bondie Award
Solicitor Advocate Jeremy Rea won the award for outstanding service as a criminal defence lawyer.
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Social Justice Dinner 2025: celebrating the power of our community
Our guest speaker Cassandra Goldie reflected on the need to fight for social justice and build empathy.
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Reflecting on an opportunity to make a life-changing difference
Australian Government Solicitor secondee Madeleine Teo reflects on her time at the HPLS Women’s Service.
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Custodianship of Country: Towards Truth on First Nations exclusion and resilience
Research from Towards Truth shows how the National Parks system has prevented Aboriginal people from accessing Country.
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Our vision for social justice in 2025
We have a bold vision for a fairer Australia in 2025. We will fight discrimination and injustice, and promote reforms to policing, immigration detention and energy systems.
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‘Make them work’ – new research highlights injustice of forced Aboriginal labour
Research from Towards Truth shows how NSW laws and policies enabled a system that exploited Aboriginal people.
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Truth shows the way forward
A year on from the Voice referendum campaign, we remain as committed to the Uluru Statement as ever.
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Oliver Williams, Justice and Equity Centre Aboriginal Social Justice Graduate, wins Ngalaya award
Oliver described his pride at receiving the award and his ambition to achieve First Nations justice.
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Alan’s story: how lived experience can change the system
Alan explains the impact of joining a lived experience advisory group.
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The meaning of home: a StreetCare art project
StreetCare hosted a series of art workshops for people who have experienced homelessness.
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Reducing unfair fines and over-policing from alcohol-free zones
HPLS and StreetCare have influenced a City of Sydney proposal to reduce the number of places where alcohol is prohibited.
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Public statement: Jetstar and Akii Ngo
A statement from Jetstar about an accident at Adelaide Airport involving our client Akii Ngo.
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Remembering StreetCare member Amir
We commemorate the life of our friend and long standing StreetCare member Amir Bodenstein, who sadly died in late June.
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Changing our name to the Justice and Equity Centre
We have changed our name to better reflect our mission: to build a fairer, stronger society by challenging laws and practices that cause disadvantage and inequality.
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Experts at Mental Health forum agree: we must change our response to people in crisis
We brought together a panel of health and legal experts, mothers of people who have been killed by police and Rose Jackson, the NSW Minister for Mental Health.
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Mental health call outs: who should respond?
We’re hosting a forum to examine alternative responses to mental health crisis.
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Unprincipled migration amendments introduce ‘indefinite surveillance’ and unjust sentences
New migration amendments introduce restrictive requirements on people who have been unlawfully detained.