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Silent plea at Parliament to help autism sufferers.
(From Canberra Times)
A ''silent plea'' went out yesterday for political parties to improve the lot of people with autism, as well as that of their families and carers.
More than 600 chairs, bearing the photographs of people with autism and related syndromes, were set up outside Parliament House in the ''first national silent plea'' for members of autism families.
The wife of former deputy prime minister Tim Fischer and mother of Harrison, who has autism, Judy Brewer Fischer, said the event would fire up advocacy groups like never before.
The system had failed people with the disorders and their families for more than a decade had the situation had got worse since Harrison was diagnosed eight years ago.
''In a federal election campaign where all sides of politics are acknowledging health, Medicare and pressure on families as key concerns of the community, it is tragic that the acute needs of our autism families continue to be completely ...
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