Rhonda Galbally's commentary on the NCPDC report Shut Out, was published in the Fairfax press earlier this week:
The trouble with disabilities is that most Australians think they happen to someone else. Recently I was talking to a man whose partner was disabled by a recent accident and he told me: "I just didn't realise how bad things were for people with a disability - until it happened to us."
He is not alone. Without first-hand experience of disability, most people assume things are better than they used to be - or at least that they are getting better.
Click here for the full text published in The Age
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