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SHUT OUT: The Experience of People with Disabilities and their Families in Australia

1. Executive summary 2.1 Overview

2. Summary and analysis of submissions and consultations

- the experience of people with disabilities and their families, friends and carers

People with a disability want to live in a society where they are treated with respect, dignity and importantly with equality, and not as ‘poor things’ nor merely as recipients of services. Additionally they do not want to be segregated as ‘people with disabilities’.

1. Executive summary 2.1 Overview

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