ACCAN gets the answers on disabled communications policies

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Tuesday, 17 August 2010 14:27pm

The Australian Communications Consumer Action Network (ACCAN) asked the major political parties for information on their policies regarding communications issues. So far only Labor and the Greens have responded.

Senator Conroy points to Labor’s National Disability Strategy, the Media Access Review (which it claims to have initiated, but was actually started by the Howard Government just before the 2007 Federal Election) and the NBN for delivering services for the disabled. Senator Conroy also pointed to the recently announced cinema access agreement with the major cinema chains.

Senator Ludlam from the Greens agreed with equal access for disabled people and pointed to the issue of SBS not captioning its download service (unlike the other government-funded channel the ABC with its iView service). He said that he has put forward amendments to telecommunications legislation currently before Parliament to deal with this.

 

 


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