Australian Human Rights Commission CRPD information concerning Australia – 11.03.13 The Standards clarify how to ensure buildings are accessible to people with disability and meet the requirements of discrimination law. 32. The Commission prepared a Guideline on the Application of the Premises Standards in March 2011. The Commission has recently reviewed this Guideline and has developed a second version. The update is not a review of the Premises Standards themselves, but rather an attempt to draw on the experiences of building professionals, regulators, access experts and advocates over the first 18 months of implementation to identify any aspects of the Guideline that could be expressed more clearly. Version 2 of the Guideline is available here. 33. Twenty Years: Twenty Stories short films concerning access to premises are ‘A Grand Entrance’, ‘Ramped Up’, and ‘Room for Change’. These films are available here. (c) Access to services 34. The Disability Discrimination Act makes discrimination unlawful regarding access to services (section 24), except where providing non-discriminatory access would involve unjustifiable hardship. In relation to access to cinemas, captioned cinema has been in Australia since 2001 with audio description introduced in 2009. 35. In 2010, Australia’s four major cinema chains jointly announced an agreement to roll-out the Cinema Access Implementation Plan that will see more than 132 cinemas and more than 242 screens around the country capable of showing accessible films. Historically, accessible movie sessions were limited to just a few a week at major city locations. The roll-out of this plan has begun ahead of schedule and as of January 2013, there are 90 cinemas in Australia that show accessible movies on a total of 170 screens.21 36. The Twenty Years: Twenty Stories short film concerning captioning ‘Lights, Camera, Caption’ is available here. (d) Education 37. The Disability Education Standards 2005 set out principles to be applied to ensure that students with disability are able to access and participate in education and training free from discrimination, and on the same basis as other students.22 38. The level of discrimination complaints in the area of education (average 9% per annum) indicates that the Education Standards have not had a beneficial effect similar to that of the Transport Standards. The Commission considers that this could be due in part to the infrastructural changes required for access to transport compared with the attitudinal changes required for access to education. 39. The Twenty Years: Twenty Stories short film concerning access to education ‘A school in the bush’ is available here. 8