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The petition of certain citizens of Australia, namely “Radio for all Australians Association Inc” Draw to the attention of the House the need for the establishment of a radio station for the benefit of those people who suffer the inability to read the spoken word and for the benefit of the Community in General.
The Federal Government has spent millions of dollars making sure that deaf people in this country receive television services.
But for those who can’t read or write, which is some 8. million Australians, there is a strong need for a special radio license and frequency, so these special programmers can be broadcast all over Australia.
Your petitioners therefore request the House to urgently consider the need for the introduction of legislation to provide this essential service.
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My Childhood was very short. It ended after my twelfth birthday in early 1952
Thus begins a most extraordinary biography. Ken Hall spent much of his early life in hospital – at twelve he was moved from the children’s ward to the terminal adult ward, where he was surrounded by old dying men. As a consequence he never learnt to read or write. “Illiterate” The doctors insisted he was going to die but he survived. As he grew older he struggled in the face of calculated cruelty to lead a normal life in a society, which equates with idiocy. His attempts to conceal his reading problems and his determination to make his own way despite continuing ill health make for sometimes hilarious, sometimes painful, but always compelling reading.
Ken Hall is the quintessence of the ordinary Aussie bloke, but there is nothing ordinary about his courage, strength and determination. This is a moving story, yet has nothing of the tragic about it. Rather, it reads like a rollicking yarn full of larrikin gusto, occasionally angry, mostly very funny, and without a trace of self-pity.
Ken, now 65, is currently developing ‘Radio For All Australians’, a national radio service for disadvantaged people. He still can’t read or write. In one of those once-in-a-lifetime
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