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Hello All!!
Please get out the diaries and turn to mon the 14th
of this month, on this wonderful day there is a planned protest to
demonsrate anger over the lack of funding for deaf interpreters in SA.
For those that are not aware, up until June 30 the
Deaf Soc. of SA funded all the deaf to have Auslan [australian sign
langauge] interpreters; for appointments, intervies, weddings, funerals etc etc.
However, as the Deaf Soc. is a charity as such it can no longer afford to fund
this service.
The governemt were given due warning and
requests were made that the governement take over the funding, approx $150,000
per year. At present, the gov pays for all non english speaking
migrants to have interpreters, However in
their wisdom they have refused to fund the deaf australian citizins, citing,
amongst other reasons that aulsan is not a 'true and proper form of
communcation'. mmmm.
We have done the petition thing to no avail so the
protest is the next step, A group will be meeting at the deaf soc at 9.15 am [on
south tce] and moving to amanda vandstone's office at 10 am then making way to
parliament house!
if u have a free morning please come along. The
deaf deserve to recieve the same access to serivices, employment etc as other
hearing australians do!!
hope to see you there!
love Jess.
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