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Action on Cinema Access

10 February 2010

Less than 0.3% of all cinema sessions are accessible to people who are deaf, hard of hearing, legally blind or who have vision impairments.

This means 4 million Australians are excluded from going to the cinema.

Action On Cinema Access believe that everyone has a right to access the cinema - all films, all cinemas, all sessions.

Recently, Village Roadshow, Greater Union, Hoyts and Reading Cinemas applied for exemption from the Disability Discrimination Act for two and a half years. If the exemption is granted, cinemas will get away with providing a minimal amount of captioning and audio description in only 105 out of 41,370 screenings per week.

This is not good enough!

If you feel that all Australians have a right to access the cinema, then contact:

Hon. Robert McLelland, Attorney General
attorney@ag.gov.au / Parliament House, Canberra ACT 2600

Senator Stephen Conroy, Minister for Communications
minister@dbcde.gov.au / Suite MG70, Parliament House, Canberra ACT 2600

Bill Shorten, Parliamentary Secretary for Disabilities
bill.shorten.mp@aph.gov.au / PO Box 214, Moonee Ponds Vic 3039

Peter Garrett, Minister for the Arts
peter.garrett.mp@aph.org.au / PO Box 6022, Parliament House, Canberra ACT 2600

Go ahead, make my day!

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