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Joanna Shulman, RLC CEO, is the guest author of the recent blog for the Equality Law Reform Project. To read her entry and the blog, please click here.

RLC's submission was referenced in Riddle of the crossed telephone lines, Sydney Morning Herald.

Can consumers expect better service and complaints handling from their phone company? And if not, who can they turn to for help? They are among the questions the Australian Communications and Media Authority will address in its draft report Reconnecting the Customer that it will publish today.

David Porter, Solicitor, Greater police powers unfair to ill, homeless, Sydney Morning Herald.

Civil libertarians have criticised state government plans to extend police powers to order drunk people in public places to ''move on'', saying it will lead to an increase in arrests of indigenous, homeless and mentally ill people.

Joanna Schulman, Executive Officer, Discriminatory attitudes towards people with a disability, Sydney Morning Herald.

Rogue landlords in Marsfield in Sydney's north west are piling as many as 20 students into shoddily converted family homes, demanding cash in hand and advance notice of visitors to avoid detection by authorities, international students say.

The chief executive of the Australian Council of Social Service is spot on with her statement that "employers need to be less discriminatory".

Joanna Schulman, CEO, in Landlords 'demanded sex' from students, Sydney Morning Herald.

The NGO CRPD Shadow Report Project Group, comprising leading disability and human rights organisations, including RLC, is close to finishing its shadow report to the United Nations.