From:	Meredith Schofield 
Sent:	Friday, 27 November 2009 11:05 AM
To:	disabdis
Subject:	Cinema exempt from Disability Discrimination Act

To whom is may concern,  
 
I am writing to voice my objection at 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.
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.

If the exemption is granted, cinemas will provide captioning and audio description for a minimum of three 
(3) screenings in 35 cinemas around Australia.

This is outrageous and is taking us further away from total social intergration in Australian society. 

Please don't let this happen...

Thank you.