Yet another bunch of self righteous crap from the bitter and twisted, post-modern feminist movement.
Like it or not and rightly or wrongly, from the dawn of the first airlines, hosties or flight attendants or whatever you want to call them have been synonymous with youthful good looks. And seeing as these 35+-ers have a wealth of experience, chances are that they too got their jobs with Ansett in they days when they were young and good looking, getting them over some other discriminee who missed out because THEY were 35 and not so good looking, albeit experienced.
May be if you all go and blockade parliament house, jump and and down while repeatedly screaming 'I'm old, I'm haggerd, I'm ugly and it's JUST NOT FAIR', then someone will listen to you. At very least, i'm sure you'll find that a whole lot of three year olds can relate to your strategy.