Paying Attention to Disability, Australia Builds Various Infrastructure
Jordan Steele-John is a senator from the environmental group who spearheaded a US $ 1 billion budgeting plan for infrastructure accessibility funds targeting public buildings for disability.
He also budgeted 400 million US dollars for public transport infrastructure for a disability, which is planned to be completed in the next four years.
Steele-John said, there had never been a political party that wanted to make this challenging program breakthrough.
Reporting from www.newsdifabel.com, John said, “My community (people with disabilities) is less likely to receive equal educational standards, and to be employed, own their own home, be financially independent as well as a much smaller possibility, but more likely to be misused because of the stress of facing mobility problems. ”
According to him, the plan aims to overcome the disproportionate impact on the lack of public housing for persons with disabilities.
Therefore, he built 500 thousand public and community houses that were fully accessible under the Federal Housing Trust.
John said this also included a full commitment to improving the scheme by ending arbitrary staffing restrictions, funding the National Disability Insurance Scheme, and creating an information technology system in accordance with its objectives.
He told Pro Bono News that Australia needs to think about how it handles disability.
“More than four million people with disabilities in Australia experience segregation and discrimination every day in our homes, our workplaces, our communities, and in the educational and institutional environment,” said John.
“We hold the crisis in hand, and we make an urgent call to protect civil rights, protect the human rights of most Australian people. That is why it is very important to think about disability,” he continued.
John stressed all of that could be frustrating because access remains a significant problem for the disabled community.
Hoping to Get Support
Steele-John also said Greens introduced a quota for disability in Australian public services with disability representatives in public services.
For him, now is the time to break free from the idea of a well-written plan and inclusion strategy for increasing representation.
“We need a system mandated to have a certain percentage of the workforce that takes into account our community,” said John.
John also explained that although the Green plan would cost billions of dollars, it could easily be paid for by making Australian and foreign multinationals pay fair taxes.
He also hopes the platform will gather cross-party support to make plans come true.
“What we are proposing is a radical and transformative civil rights agenda aimed at breaking down the barriers separating nearly four million Australians, now it is up to the main parties to decide whether such a program is something they want to support,” he said.
Cátia Malaquias, founder and director of Starting With Julius, is a project that promotes disability inclusion. He was very pleased if major parties supported the plan.
“Very pleased to see Greens’ commitment to inclusive education for disabled students in regular classrooms in Australian schools, after the party promised to develop new national standards for inclusive education training. Programs that support inclusive education are part of the rights recognized by the United Nations Convention on Persons “Disability,” said Cátia.