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David and Goliath battle over disability discrimination

4 November 2011

Joanna Shulman, CEO of Redfern Legal Centre, has written the following opinion piece for the ABC's The Drum:

This week David and Goliath have been playing it out in the Federal Court of Australia.

Sheila King, a spunky 75-year-old woman from a small regional town with post-polio syndrome, is taking on Jetstar in a disability discrimination claim in the second highest court in our country.

Ms King's claim is that she was refused access to a Jetstar flight because there were already two passengers using wheelchairs on the flight she wished to board...

Click here to read full articel at The Drum.

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