‘We exist 365 days a year’

<p>In 1992, the UN General Assembly agreed that 3 December every year would be International Day of People with Disability.</p><p>It marked an early attempt to treat disability as a human rights and access issue – something that was becoming a movement across the world at the time. Here in Australia, It was the same year that Australia passed the Disability Discrimination Act.</p><p>But thirty years later, how much progress has been made? And has society really stopped viewing disability through the lenses of medicine or charity?</p><p>Today, contributor to <em>The Saturday Paper</em>, writer and critic Olivia Muscat on what the day means to her, and how it could be done better.</p><p><br /></p><p><strong>Socials: </strong>Stay in touch with us on <a href="http://www.twitter.com/7ampodcast">Twitter</a> and <a href="http://www.instagram.com/7ampodcast">Instagram</a></p><p><strong>Guest:</strong> Contributor to <em>The Saturday Paper</em> writer and critic Olivia Muscat.</p><p>See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.</p>