In 1992, the UN General Assembly agreed that 3 December every year would be International Day of People with Disability.It marked an early attempt to treat disability as a human rights and access issue – something that was becoming a movement across the world at the time. Here in Australia, It was the same year that Australia passed the Disability Discrimination Act.But thirty years later, how much progress has been made? And has society really stopped viewing disability through the lenses of medicine or charity?Today, contributor to The Saturday Paper, writer and critic Olivia Muscat on what the day means to her, and how it could be done better.Socials: Stay in touch with us on Twitter and InstagramGuest: Contributor to The Saturday Paper writer and critic Olivia Muscat.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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