Demand disability awareness training for AFL Footballers

Demand disability awareness training for AFL Footballers

The Issue

The St Kilda players hired two little people to be their entertainment and one of them, Blake Johnston, was set on fire by a St Kilda AFL player, Clint Jones.  The head of the AFL, Andrew Demetriou, laughed when told about it. The AFL must implement a training program on disabilty equality, and disability rights.  

Then another AFL player is alleged to have run towards a wheelchair user screaming "Wheelchair, wheelchair, wheelchair" and then assaulted the man.

The AFL already has education programs for players and administrators on indigenous and women's issues, and these cases shows that they lag well behind when it comes to disability issues.  Please support this campaign by signing the petition.

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The Issue

The St Kilda players hired two little people to be their entertainment and one of them, Blake Johnston, was set on fire by a St Kilda AFL player, Clint Jones.  The head of the AFL, Andrew Demetriou, laughed when told about it. The AFL must implement a training program on disabilty equality, and disability rights.  

Then another AFL player is alleged to have run towards a wheelchair user screaming "Wheelchair, wheelchair, wheelchair" and then assaulted the man.

The AFL already has education programs for players and administrators on indigenous and women's issues, and these cases shows that they lag well behind when it comes to disability issues.  Please support this campaign by signing the petition.

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Petition created on September 4, 2013