From: Jasna Bruce Sent: Monday, 7 December 2009 5:06 PM To: disabdis Subject: Fair go for hearing impaired Dear Sir/Madam, I wish to put in a submission objecting to the proposed exemption from the Disability Act by the Cinema Industry. The Cinema Industry has applied for an exemption from the Disability Discrimination Act in relation to captioning for the next two and a half years. This means that if accepted, deaf and hard of hearing people will lose their right to complain about the lack of captioning at any of the 125 cinemas owned by Village, Hoyts, Reading and Greater Union Cinemas for the next 2.5 years. If accepted, captioning will be offered at 35 cinemas just 3 times a week (which translates to one movie a week, mostly off peak - just 0.3% of the estimated 40,000 films screened by these four major cinemas each week). I ask that you consider this and not approve this exemption. The Deaf have a right to culture in the media of movies shown in cinema. Sincerley Jasna Bruce