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How disappointing this is after so much time has been spent by the Australian Human Rights Commis \hich\af0\dbch\af40\loch\f0 s\hich\af0\dbch\af40\loch\f0 ion working with these operators to improve captioning and audio description at the 1182 screens owned by these four exhibitors? We urge the Commission to reject this application for exemption. \par \par \hich\af0\dbch\af40\loch\f0 If the exemption is granted cinemas will provide captioning a\hich\af0\dbch\af40\loch\f0 nd audio description for a minimum of three screenings a week in 35 cinemas. That equates to .3 % of the estimated 40,000 films they screen each week. \par \par \hich\af0\dbch\af40\loch\f0 What short-sighted business this is. 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