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Joanna Schulman, Executive Officer on ABC Lateline, Jetstar Accused of Illegal Discrimination.

A disabled woman has taken action against Jetstar in the Federal Court after the airline refused to allow her onto a flight because policy restricts any one flight to two wheelchairs.

RLC has started its new legal advice service for students in NSW on 5 October 2011.

Redfern Legal Centre, together with the Metropolitan Local Aboriginal Land Council, Wirringa Baiya Aboriginal Women's Legal Centre and the Mudgin-gal Aboriginal Women's Centre announce a forum on 15 September 2011.

Joanna Shulman, Executive Officer in Students Exploited, Sydney Morning Herald.

RLC congratulations Helen Campbell, previous CEO of Redfern Legal Centre, for being awarded an Order of Australia Medal for her services to the law and to the Redfern Community!

The impulsive need to condemn is a reaction to our inability to describe why riots happen in some disadvantaged areas and not others. We should be making a concerted effort to separate the process of identifying and punishing criminal acts from understanding why they happen, particularly on a large scale. Instead we get the constant insistence that people are rational moral actors — and that violence has no place in a reasonable society.

The political posturing on law and order in the UK is all too familiar. Just as in Redfern and Macquarie Fields, the connections between crime, policing and poverty are fraught, writes Adam Brereton.

As part of National Homelessness Week, RLC launched its new Boarders and Lodgers Legal Kit at Parliament House.

By all means let's investigate privacy abuse, including that of government ("A privacy probe? Yes indeed", Editorial, 28/7).