Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

DISABILITY DISCRIMINATION ACT 1992 - SECT 3

    The objects of this Act are:

  (a)   to eliminate, as far as possible, discrimination against persons on the ground of disability in the areas of:

  (i)   work, accommodation, education, access to premises, clubs and sport; and

  (ii)   the provision of goods, facilities, services and land; and

  (iii)   existing laws; and

  (iv)   the administration of Commonwealth laws and programs; and

  (b)   to ensure, as far as practicable, that persons with disabilities have the same rights to equality before the law as the rest of the community; and

  (c)   to promote recognition and acceptance within the community of the principle that persons with disabilities have the same fundamental rights as the rest of the community.