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DCLS MEDIA RELEASE – Reforms for renters long overdue

Media Release from Darwin Community Legal Service Source: https://www.dcls.org.au/media-release-reforms-for-renters-long-overdue/ Today the Northern Territory Parliament marked its commitment to modernising tenancy law in the Territory by passing long overdue reforms to the Residential Tenancies Act to increase protections for tenants across the Territory.  The amendments will remove the practice of blacklisting tenants on private databases without their knowledge.  These listings are often unsubstantiated and until now tenants have had difficulty correcting the record or having a listing removed. While Darwin Community Legal Service (DCLS) welcomes the Read More +