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1 Mar 2013

Author:
Australian Human Rights Commission

Disability Discrimination Act marks 20 years [Australia]

The Disability Discrimination Act’s twentieth birthday will be celebrated on Friday 1 March with the launch of twenty short films...showing how people have used this law to change their lives, and the lives of others...Going to school, catching a bus, watching a movie or entering a building are things we do every day. But some of us have had to fight hard to be able to do them...The Disability Discrimination Act provides Australians with disability - and their relatives or associates - with the opportunity to lodge a complaint if they are treated less favourably than other people in a range of areas of public life. The purpose of these twenty short films is to show that the biggest hurdle facing Australians with a disability, is not disability itself but negative attitudes towards disability. They illustrate that people with disability can make rich contributions to society if barriers in our schools, universities, buildings and retail stores are removed...