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  • Update

Social Justice Dinner 2025 photo gallery

We are delighted to share a gallery of photos from our 2025 Social Justice Dinner.
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  • Family is culture, First Nations justice

2SER Breakfast: 2025 National Close the Gap Day

Solicitor and Dharug woman, Kate Sinclair discusses the productivity commission's new report on Closing the Gap targets.
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  • Update

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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  • Disability Discrimination, Disability Rights

NT News: ‘How can they trust you?’: Qantas, Virgin execs front Senate for cancelled flights compo hearing

Senior Solicitors Erin Turner Manners and Sheetal Balakrishnan spoke about how airlines were failing people with disability at a parliamentary hearing into aviation consumer protections.
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  • Homelessness, HPLS women

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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  • Disability Discrimination, Disability Rights

Lawyers Weekly: Woman sues Uber for discrimination following repeated guide dog refusals

Our client Paula Hobley took Uber to the Federal Court for refusing to provide her service over 30 times because of her Guide Dog.
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  • Disability Discrimination, Disability Rights

2SER: Denied a ride – Guide Dogs and Uber

JEC Senior Solicitor, Erin Turner Manners, discusses our client Paula Hobley and her case in the Federal Court against Uber.
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  • First Nations justice, Towards Truth

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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  • Civil rights, Policing and Detention

AAP: Premier claims credit for higher jail rate

CEO Jonathon Hunyor responded to NSW Premier Minns praise of higher jail and remand rates.
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  • Civil rights, Policing and Detention

CityHub: Controversial New Hate Speech Laws Passed In NSW

JEC Director of Policy and Advocacy, Alastair Lawrie calls for the Minns Government to address serious gaps in the new hate speech laws.
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  • Civil rights, Discrimination

New criminal offence for inciting hatred ‘excludes more groups than it actually protects’

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  • Disability Discrimination, Disability Rights

LSJ: Victorian woman takes Uber to Federal Court for discrimination

JEC client, Paula Hobley, is taking the ride-sharing company Uber to the Federal Court after being refused a ride on 32 occasions.
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  • Disability Discrimination, Disability Rights

The Daily Aus: Victorian woman sues Uber for refusing to pick up her guide dog

We took action against Uber for our client who suffered over 30 instances of disability discrimination
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  • Disability Discrimination, Disability Rights

SBS News in easy English: Paula Hobley is suing Uber

Our client Paula Hobley is suing Uber after being repeatedly refused rides because of her Guide Dog.
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