"Hey, Cabbie! Do you think we're not watching you?"

By Scott Rains on March 18, 2010 4:12 PM

In the quotidian saga of being a mild-mannered day-to-day Superhero-for-disability-rights-in-disguise Graeme Innes goes about the normal tasks of daily living in Sydney.

Hubris crumbles in his wake:

A Sydney cabbie is in the doghouse after refusing to allow a guide dog and its high-profile owner - Disability Discrimination Commissioner Graeme Innes - into his vehicle.
James Young could not have picked a worse person to turn away than Mr Innes, who is a lawyer and human rights advocate.
He promptly reported the cabbie to the Department for Transport, which launched a prosecution.
Today, Young was fined $750 and ordered to pay $2500 in costs at a Sydney court.
It is by no means the first time Mr Innes and his golden Labrador Jordie have been refused a cab - an offence under federal and state law.
A recent Guide Dogs NSW/ACT survey showed one in three guide dog owners were turned away by cabbies in the past 12 months, with Sydney drivers the worst offender

Full story:
http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/sydney-cabbie-collared-by-disability-boss-20100317-qf2u.html

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