Smoking bans are being implemented in psychiatric wards (including outdoor areas) all over Australia, forcing involuntary mental health patients to quit smoking against their will. These bans increase distress amongst people already in severe crisis, impede recovery and put people at risk. This cause aims to get these bans repealed, and smoking areas re-established in suitable outdoor areas.
Saturday, 9 April 2011
Clearly the hospital wasn't going to do anything, so I took it to the Human Rights Commission.
25 September 2010: I made a formal complaint about the smoking ban to the Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission (VEOHRC) – on grounds that it was discriminatory. Five days later they opened an investigation into my complaint.
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Well shit happens all the time... i don't know why racist people are racist, if some one make racist comments to me, i must waste time in the court, money and the same for him, why just don't avoid the problem.
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