From:	Dylan Beasley 
Sent:	Friday, 27 November 2009 9:03 PM
To:	disabdis
Subject:	Accessible Cinema - Captioning

Hello,  
 
As a member of the Deaf Community I wish to express my deep concerns regarding the Big 4 
Cinemas' application for exemption. 
 
If their application is successful this will lead to another of extreme and long frustration period 
for the Deaf Community. We've suffered enough with the lack of captioning on television. This 
is like kicking us while we are down.  
 
it's already bad enough that we don't have equal access to captioning cinemas. The majority of 
Deaf people live outside Melbourne. Many of them have different jobs at different hours, thus 
they don't have the opportunity of watching a movie that only will show once a day. And we 
only have THREE little opportunities to watch a captioned movie: Wednesday morning, Friday 
evening and Sunday afternoon. But they don't deserve to be called opportunities, because there 
are 24 hours a day and we have many things to do in a day meaning it is difficult to make time 
for a movie that many of us may would love to watch.  
 
What I am saying is not only their application must be rejected but action must be taken to 
provide the Deaf Community the equal access as it's their right!  
 
Kind regards 
Dylan Beasley