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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Disability Discrimination, Disability Rights

ABC News: Woman takes Uber to Federal Court over repeated guide dog refusals

JEC CEO Jonathon Hunyor explained why we are representing Paula Hobley to sue Uber for disability discrimination.
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  • Civil rights, Discrimination

LSJ: Drawing the line on hate: Are Australia’s new laws the answer, or an overreach?

Commentary from Director of Policy and Advocacy, Alastair Lawrie, was featured in analysis of new hate speech laws.
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  • Civil rights, Discrimination

2SER: How New Hate Crime Laws Fail To Protect LGBTIQ+ People

JEC Director of Policy and Advocacy, Alastair Lawrie, explains how LGBTIQ+ people remain unprotected despite recent changes to NSW Hate Speech laws.
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  • Civil rights, Discrimination, Update

LSJ: Minns government dangerously disregards anti-LGBTIQ+ hatred

JEC Director of Policy and Advocacy, Alastair Lawrie, explains how the NSW Government's hate crime laws fail to protect LGBTIQ+ people.
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  • Civil rights, Policing and Detention

2SER: How the Commonwealth Government Can Protect Children

JEC Principal Solicitor, Jonathan Hall Spence explains how the Australian Government has the constitutional powers to protect children.
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  • Disability Discrimination, Disability Rights

TravelTalk: Jetstar to improve passenger services after blind passenger left stranded in airport lounge

After being stranded at Melbourne Airport, JEC client Emma Benison won new protocols for blind passengers travelling by Jetstar.
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