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\par 
\par Dear Commissioner Innes and Michael Small,
\par Thank you for the opportunity to make a submission on the application for an Exemption under DDA section 55: Cinema Captioning and audio description.  I am a deaf cinema patron and I do not support this granting of this temporary exemption for the reasons
 that follow :
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\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid1380381  The applicants seek to make a link between one proposal to make more cinemas accessible, and another proposal for deaf, hearing impaired (HI) and visually impaired (VI)   peopl
e to stop making DDA complaints for a few years about access to captioned cinema.  These are two discrete issues.  Access is not an either/or issue whereby deaf, hearing impaired and visually impaired people should be expected to give up our DDA protectio
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s  in exchange for other people being  given  access to captioned cinema.  If it was right that we were given access to cinema,  and it was, it should follow that these rights are maintained.  Quite distinct from this is that  deaf, HI and VI  Australians
, who don\rquote t currently have this access, should  also be offered it with no strings attached.
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\insrsid1380381   I offer as an example my own experience in the early part of this year in 
which I went to the Jam Factory in South Yarra expecting to see a captioned movie on a Sunday afternoon. Email correspondence between the cinema and myself is appended to this submission.  The salient details are that the movie was shown two hours earlier
 
than advertised so a number of us missed the movie.   As you will read in the email, in reply the Jam Factory stated that it has the right to change screening times without notice.  They said that the reason they changed the screening time from 4.30pm to 
2.30pm was that they were contractually obliged to show Sunday movies before 4.00pm.  However since that email the Jam Factory has continued to advertise its Sunday movies at 4.15pm, thereby discrediting their own argument.  
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\s15\ql \fi-360\li720\ri0\sa200\sl276\slmult1\widctlpar\wrapdefault\aspalpha\aspnum\faauto\ls1\adjustright\rin0\lin720\itap0\pararsid9120133\contextualspace {\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \b\ul\insrsid1380381\charrsid6361253 The applicants have not always
 acted in good faith with deaf and HI people.}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid1380381 
  Captioned movies on Wed and Friday are advertised  as showing at inconvenient times  for most people.  With the Sunday movie, nobody can ever know in advance if they will get to see the movie they have travell
ed so far to attend.  While the cinema has a website it is not always operational for double checking the times.  It is very hard to get through to the cinema on the telephone.    In summary, while obstensibly people have access to captioned movies, in pr
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ctice I do not believe these cinemas have a history of acting in good faith in relation to screening of these movies.   While it sounds encouraging that these cinemas are considering making more cinemas accessible,   I question why this request for an Exe
mption is being made. What does it matter if the DDA is in place if these cinemas are intending to act fairly ?  The only time any of us consider using it is when we believe we have been discriminated against. 
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  Mr Perikieous states that the applicants have had \'93productive discussions with representatives of the deaf and hearing impaired communities, Media Access and the ºÚÁÏÇ鱨վ .\'94  I belong to Deaf Australia, and am on the mai
ling list for Media Access.  Adequate consultative mechanisms need to be in place between these organisations and the people they are speaking for.  If there are consultative mechanisms in place in relation to captioning I am not aware of them, nor are ot
h
er people I know who share my interest in this topic.   On this basis I do not believe that the reduced time given to lodge a submission to AHRC is fair. Indeed I believe that an extension should be given to allow deaf, hearing impaired and vision impaire
d people to be adequately consulted on this request for an Exemption, and to then have time to make submissions in formats appropriate to the different members of these groups.  
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\par Thanks again for the chance to make a submission.
\par 
\par Karen McQuigg
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