NSW and Queensland Companion Cards
Companion Cards, developed to promote the existing right of people with a disability to fair ticketing, are now available in NSW and Queensland.
For details and lists of venues where you can use your Companion Card please refer to our updated earlier article: Companion Cards in Australia
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I am continually outraged by the paternalistic acceptance of parents and organisations for second rate handouts offered by cold hearted and mean spitited bureaucrats and their dancing media grabbing politicians . This card is a joke surely?
Children born with a neurological or severely restricting physical disorder need protection by mandate not charity. These feckless bureucrats are more interested in building football stadiums than they are in building early childhood development centres for the diagnosis,intervention,and treatments for our children. If your kid could kick a 30 metre punt or bowl straight there would be any amount of community resourse available to develop that talent..
It is an insult to the Australian professed ideal of egalitarianism. My eight y o son Caleb loves “In the night garden” a childrens show for 1-4y olds. Why should I have to pay for a ticket so he can enjoy some interective entertainment in his life. Is the value of his quality of life less, equal to , or greater than that of his typical peer group…
The stalling of a proper mandated fully meaningful inclusion policy set in stone, is also an insult to the collective intelligence of most parents, who know damn well there are more votes in sport than in looking after high needs kids in Australia.
I am, as a parent convinced there is no grounswell of political support for our children,and in over 8 years I have heard the rhetoric regurgitated over and over again.
The genetic lucky dip of life is a gamble for us all, and so it follows that the lucky should watch out for the unlucky. That is fair and just by any measure,and I defy anybody to convince otherwise.
Why do we as parents continue to believe the cheap words of politicians when we know our kids don’t win votes in the traditional sense. Isn’t it time we became more militant,more active,more inspiring,more determined for our beautiful children. Don’t we owe them the right to reach their true and full potential.
Collectively we are a powerful political voice,but we are fragmented ,isolated and in a lot of cases completely disengaged from the process because of the daily needs of our children.
Tokenism,whims,and ignorance is no longer acceptable.