From:	Rhian Hinkley 
Sent:	Thursday, 26 November 2009 1:57 PM
To:	disabdis
Subject:	Disability Discrimination Act exemption

To whom it may concern

I would like to voice my objection to the application made by Village  
Roadshow, Greater Union, Hoyts and Reading Cinemas requesting  
exemption from the Disability Discrimination Act for a period of two  
and a half years.

This means that Australians who are Deaf, hard of hearing, legally  
blind and vision impaired, including older Australians, stand to lose  
their right to complain to the Human Rights Commission about the lack  
of provision of captioning and audio description services at ANY of  
the 125 cinemas (1182 screens) owned by these four exhibitors.

I don't see any benefit in this exemption

Yours sincerely

Rhian Hinkley



Rhian Hinkley

Director - lowercase
http://www.lowercase.com.au