18/08/2018
Any person that has a dog attack victim in their household or suffer from PTSD or Cynophobia has a right to shop or dine where ever they like. Dogs in outdoor dining areas is illegally taking away the right of a person that has been victimised by a dog. If anybody wants to chat about it, my ears are open.
The Disability Discrimination Act protects people from being harassed and excluded.
What does the Disability Discrimination Act do?
If you have a disability, the Act protects you against discrimination in many areas of public life, including:
• employment – getting a job, terms and conditions of a job, training, promotion, being dismissed
• getting or using services – such as banking and insurance services, services provided by government departments, transport or telecommunication services, professional services like those provided by lawyers, doctors or tradespeople, services provided by restaurants, shops or entertainment venues
• accessing public places – such as parks, government offices, restaurants, hotels or shopping centres.
The Act also protects you if you are harassed, because of your disability, in employment, education or in getting or using services.
How is ‘disability’ defined?
The definition of 'disability’ used in the Act is broad.
It includes physical, intellectual, psychiatric, sensory, neurological and learning disabilities. It also includes physical disfigurement and the presence in the body of disease-causing organisms, such as the HIV virus.
The Act covers disabilities that people have now, had in the past, may have in the future or which they are believed to have.
What is harassment?
Harassment occurs when someone makes you feel intimidated, insulted, humiliated or places you in a hostile environment.
Harassment because of a disability, such as insults or humiliating jokes, is against the law if it happens in a place of employment or education, or from people providing goods and services.
