From:	Tess Noonan-Egan 
Sent:	Wednesday, 25 November 2009 4:42 PM
To:	disabdis
Subject:	cinema exhibitors’ proposed exemption? 

Good afternoon 
I am writing to express my objection to the recent 
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. 
 
I do not believe that this would be in the spirit of the 
goals of the Government's National Strategy. 
 
If this application is accepted it means that Australians who 
are Deaf, hard of hearing, legally blind and vision impaired, 
including older Australians, of which I am one of many, 
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. 
 
Please stop this backward step. 
tess Noonan