Dog Guide Handlers Australia (DGHA) is an independent non profit association of Dog Guide Handlers and is not affiliated with any Dog Guide organisation. We provide an independent voice for Australians who use Dog Guides as mobility aids.
Our board is becoming acutely aware of the need for advocacy around Dog Guide refusals in Australia with continuing reports on our social media channels and from our members facing refusals to taxi and rideshare services, hospitality venues, accommodation providers and various other businesses and services.
As part of our mission to foster, represent, promote, enhance and protect the interests of Australians who are Dog Guide handlers, we are asking people who use Dog Guides as mobility aids across Australia to share the details of any refusal incidents to support our advocacy work. We aim to capture a detailed picture of the scope of this discrimination problem so that we can address the legislation at Government level.
We are not using this information to advocate individually for those who report incidents using this form, this data will be used only for systemic advocacy.
This form will remain available indefinitely so that we capture a long term picture of the situation around Dog Guide refusals in Australia.
The information we collect in this form will only be shared in an unidentifiable format.
All of the questions in this form require an answer.
Please only report one incident per form and incidents that have occurred from 2022 onwards. If you need to report more than one incident, please start again with a fresh form for each incident.
To avoid an inaccessible CAPTCHA at the end of this form, please ensure you are signed in to a Google account before you begin. You can also download this questionnaire in Word or .rtf format to complete and return to DGHA via email by visiting the homepage of our website
http://dgha.org.au/dgha/ If for some reason you are unable to access this form or download the document versions of the form, please contact DGHA by emailing
dgha@dgha.org.au.
Visit our website
www.dgha.org.au