Excerpt from the ABC:
While dancing with friends at a Sydney pub on a Friday night, a man who has cerebral palsy was told to get off the dancefloor because he was using a wheelchair.
Mr Tun, who did not want to use his first name for privacy reasons, was celebrating a friend’s birthday at 3 Wise Monkeys in George St last month.While dancing with friends at a Sydney pub on a Friday night, a man who has cerebral palsy was told to get off the dancefloor because he was using a wheelchair.
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Mitchell Skipsey, senior solicitor at the Justice and Equity Centre, said often people who used wheelchairs were frustrated by the public’s simplistic understanding of what disability looked like.
“Instead, they find that there’s often these blanket exclusions that leave them unable to do things like entertainment or leisure activities that are actually a really important part of participating in society and living an ordinary life,” he said.
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