• Current Exhibitions
• Past Exhibitions
  • A Community of Communities
  • A Worthwhile Enterprise
  • Ancient Hampi
  • Australia's Muslim Cameleers
  • Belonging: Reflections on Place
  • Beyond the Postcard Image
  • Callaloo
  • Celebrating World Cultures through Scouting
  • CMY 20th anniversary
  • Cultural Diversity Quest
  • Cultural Diversity Quest Awards
  • Cultural Diversity Quest Exhibition
  • Far away, So close
  • Fighting for Equality
    • Introduction
    • Courage on Your Own
    • Rice from the Sky
    • The Poet
    • Women in Flight
    • The Advocate
    • The Family Man
    • The Unknown
    • My Twins
    • A New Life
    • Good Soil
    • My Mother
    • The Recovery
    • The Athlete
    • The Delay
    • The Fighter
    • The Group
  • Greek treasures
  • Handing on the Key
  • Honouring our Ancestors: Remembering Timor Leste
  • Kimono
  • Kurbet...
  • Masks of China: Ritual and Legend
  • On their own
  • Our Stories Wodonga
  • Station Pier
  • Survival of a Culture: Kurds in Australia
  • Talanoa
  • Talking Faiths
  • Trailblazers
  • Waters of Tuvalu
  • We came as workers, We stayed as citizens
  • West Africa: Rhythm and Spirit

Fighting for Equality

Composite image comprised of participants in the exhibition, together with some of their carers and families.
Source: ADEC

An exhibition about people with disabilities from ethnic backgrounds.

In 1981 the International Year of the Disabled Persons inspired carers and people with disabilities in Melbourne to create a unique service called ADEC. Its name stands for Advocacy Disability Ethnicity Community. Today it continues to empower people with disabilities from ethnic backgrounds, their carers and families to fully participate as members of the Victorian community.

Fighting for Equality explores the challenges and experiences of people with disabilities from ethnic backgrounds, their carers and their families and offers hope and advice to others in similar situations.