‘They’re doing the wrong thing’: accessible taxi drivers at Melbourne airport filmed refusing service to wheelchair user

Samantha Connor had spent eight hours filming training about taxi discrimination when she says she was refused service four times at Melbourne airport. Photograph: David Crosling/AAP

When a storm forced her Canberra-bound plane to divert back to Melbourne, Samantha Connor, a disability advocate, and her partner found themselves trying to hail a wheelchair taxi at Melbourne airport late on a Friday night in early December.

Earlier that day, Connor had spent eight hours filming training about the discrimination faced by people with disabilities when needing a taxi.