From:	Joanne Le Gall 
Sent:	Monday, 7 December 2009 10:55 PM
To:	disabdis
Subject:	What about the rights of deaf and hard of hearing Australians?

I am an audiologist who believes in the rights of deaf and hard of hearing Australians.  

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.  I WISH TO OPPOSE THIS APPLICATION.

If the application is  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).  This is not fair for the deaf and hard of hearing Australian 
community.

I implore you to REJECT this application.

Yours sincerely,

Joanne Le Gall