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The Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) is seeking feedback from people with disability and carers and/or parents of people with a disability on service offerings to support electoral participation at polling places.

Enabling Spaces has been engaged by the AEC to facilitate focus group discussions across different disability sectors to provide opinion on polling place elector support services, and options to best communicate the service offerings to electors through the AEC website. If you,

• Have a vision impairment or are blind
• Have a hearing impairment or are deaf
• Have a mobility or physical disability
• Have a cognitive or neurological disability, for example, autism, anxiety, early onset dementia, sensory processing disorder
• Are either a parent or a carer of a person with a disability

We want to hear your opinion.

Each focus group session will be specific to each of these groups and held on 4th of February 2021. Focus groups will be held via Zoom meeting and then online survey.

Each focus group will have a maximum of 12 participants and will last between 60 and 90 minutes.

Session times are;

Session 1. 4th February 9:30am
People with neurological disability & parents or carers of a person with any disability

Session 2. 4th February 11:30am
People who are blind or have a vision impairment

Session 3. 4th February 1:30pm
People who are deaf or hard of hearing

Session 4. 4th February 3:30pm
People with a physical or mobility disability

Participation is voluntary and a token of appreciation will be provided.

Please register your interest by completing the following form. The short form requests information that should take less than 10 minutes to complete.

Your personal and identity information collected will remain confidential and will only be used to set up the focus groups.

NOTE: We will contact you with further information regarding participation. Applicants will be chosen based on the information provided in the expression of interest form to ensure the group represents diversity in knowledge and experience.

Enabling Spaces extends our sincere appreciation of your interest to participate in this project.

Expression of interest close at midnight 3 February 2021