To:	disabdis
Subject:	Captioning exemption

I am lodging my opposition to the application made by the cinema industry in relation 
to an exeption from the Disability Discrimination Act in relation to captioning movies for 
the next two and a half years.

If you accept this application you are allowing Australian cinemas to openly 
discriminate against a large section of the Australian population, by not allowing Deaf 
and hearing impaired people equal access to films.  Already the number of captioned 
films in this country is poor, to pass this application would further decrease the number 
of films available with captions.

I implore you to reject the application and urge cinemas to provide a higher percentage 
of captioned films.


Regards,

Catie Kidd