The Tribunal (NCAT) – news and analysis

 

Tenant Advocates at the Network Meeting

No Bang for your Bond!

This is the initial response from Tenants' Union of NSW, resourcing body for 19 NSW-based Tenancy Advice and Advocacy Services, to the release of funding agreements from 2019-2022 for NSW…
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Jo Hibbert

Reflections of a Blue Mountains Tenant Advocate

Jo Hibbert has been a Tenant Advocate at the Blue Mountains Tenants’ Advice and Advocacy Service for seven years. Now she’s retiring for a well-earned break, so we took the opportunity to ask…
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Chris Maybin

17 years of advocacy in Regional NSW

Chris Maybin has been a Tenant Advocate with VERTO South West Tenants’ Advice Service for 17 years. Now she's moving on, but in this interview she gives some of her thoughts and reflections…
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Submission

Submission: Residential Tenancies Regulation 2019

The Tenants' Union made this submission to the Residential Tenancies Regulation 2019 Consultation. For this submission, the Tenants' Union consulted heavily with the advocates of the…
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NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal – have your say

The Civil and Administrative Tribunal has been operating for more than 5 years! In that time hundreds of thousands of tenancy, social housing, residential land lease communities and boarding…
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Leaking roof
The leaking roof over the home of a 93-year-old protected tenant.

Protected tenants infosheet

A small number of tenants of residential premises across New South Wales live in premises covered by the former Landlord and Tenant (Amendment) Act 1948 (‘1948 Act’). They are known as ‘…
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Submission

Submission: Civil and Administrative Tribunal Act 2013 Statutory Review

The Tenants' Union of NSW and the network of Tenant Advocates who we train, resource and support have assisted tens of thousands of tenants in all predecessor Tribunals since the…
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Lives Turned Upside Down: NSW Renters' Experience of 'no grounds' evictions

This report by the Tenants’ Union of NSW and Marrickville Legal Centre explores the impacts of no grounds evictions. The Tenants' Union of NSW recommends ending no grounds evictions,…
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Ending Tenancy – Domestic Violence Termination Notice

Ending tenancy due to domestic violence – Domestic Violence Termination Notice

Tenants in circumstances of domestic violence are able to end their tenancy by serving a Domestic Violence Termination Notice (DVTN), with relevant evidence, and vacating
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Submission

Submission: Better Business Reforms Implementation Options Paper

This Tenants' Union submission is concerned with items related to uncollected goods, utility agreements in strata schemes and the repeal of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1899.
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woman using loudhailer

Changes coming to renting in NSW – Residential Tenancies Act 2010

You may have heard that changes are coming to renting laws in NSW. Learn more about the changes, how they will affect you and and when the changes will start.
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Research

Briefing: Scraping it together – NCAT hearings data

This presentation looks at data on NCAT hearings, and who is applying for what. 
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