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Image: Andrew Jeffrey11 August 2009A candid report into a broken system is the first step to fixing it writes Rhonda Galbally in The Age.
THE trouble with disabilities is that most Australians think they happen to someone else. Recently I was talking to a man whose partner was disabled by a recent accident and he told me: "I just didn't realise how bad things were for people with a disability - until it happened to us."
He is not alone. Without first-hand experience of disability, most people assume things are better than they used to be - or at least that they are getting better.
Rhonda Galbally discusses the result of the report Shut out: The experience of people with disabilities and their families in Australia from the National People with Disabilities and Carer Council.