From:	Karen Sparrow [
Sent:	Monday, 7 December 2009 4:19 PM
To:	disabdis
Subject:	Opposition to Exemption from DDA

Dear Sir/Madam

I believe that 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.  

This means that deaf and hard of hearing people will lose their right to complain about the lack of 
captioning at any of the 125 cinemas owned by Village, Hoyts, Reading and Greater Union Cinemas 
for the next 2.5 years.  If accepted, captioning will be offered at only 35 cinemas just 3 times a 
week.

I am strongly opposed to the granting of such an exemption from the Disability Discrimination Act.

Yours faithfully

Karen Sparrow 
Lecturer in Audiology
Audiology Clinical Coordinator 
Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology 
Flinders University 
P.O. Box 2100, 
Adelaide, SA, 5001 
Australia