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In the year of its 20th anniversary, the Federal Disability Discrimination Act is under scrutiny thanks to a 78-year old woman taking on an airline policy of not flying more than two people in wheelchairs on the same plane.

The veteran disability rights campaigner, Sheila King, 78, is undaunted by the barrage of hateful comments that followed her unsuccessful court action against Jetstar for its ''two wheelchair'' policy.

The Federal Court has rejected claims Jetstar discriminated against a 75-year-old disabled woman by refusing to allow her passage.

A 78-year-old woman has lost her lawsuit against Jetstar over the airline's refusal to allow her on a flight between Adelaide and Brisbane because she was confined to a wheelchair.

What is apparent from NSW government figures is something that has been known to many for years: a response from a drug detection dog is not a reasonable indication that a person is in possession of a prohibited drug ("Sniffer dogs get it wrong four out of five times", December 12).

Jetstar is appearing in a Federal court this week, in a matter concerning passenger Sheila King who is seeking a declaration that the airlines two’s wheelchair policy is discriminatory.

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

A disabled woman is taking Jetstar to the Federal Court seeking a declaration that the airline's "two wheelchair policy'' is discriminatory.

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.

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.