Australia’s former disability discrimination commissioner has called for a television advertisement quota to shift attitudes and help lift the “abysmal” employment rate of people with a disability.
“You can’t be what you can’t see, so we need to see people with disabilities employed in jobs,” Graeme Innes told the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability on Monday.
“We need to see people with disabilities on our television screens, in our advertising.”
