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Disability royal commission hears about barriers to finding employment faced by people like Yuri
Yuri Sianski has spent the last 25 years trying to find a job — and his father has told the disability royal commission the situation is a “shameful cul-de-sac of neglect”.
Key points:
- The disability royal commission will hear from more than 20 witnesses this week on the barriers people with disability face finding and maintaining employment
- Edward Sianski said his son Yuri, who lives with schizophrenia, has been “exploited” in the past
- The royal commission heard earlier this week that Australians with disability are more likely to be over-educated for their jobs, have lower earnings and poor job satisfaction
Yuri, 47, from Hobart, lives with schizophrenia and has trained as a bartender and a cleaner but has only ever managed to find…
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