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(Note: story is captioned) Victorian local governments are being urged to grow their representation of people with disabilities among councils and key staff. The first blind man to hold the role of mayor says his experience living with a disability lends to invaluable perspective in the role, and he's calling for stronger targets across the state.

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00:02Careful at Tony Clark was apparently legally blind at just 20 years old.
00:08The case later, he doesn't let him do an impairment since he's been doing the child he loves.
00:14That lived experience brings immense value. It's a great strength.
00:18It shouldn't be looked at as a negative, it's actually a strength.
00:22While the child remains again, Mr Clark does things a little differently.
00:30I use adaptive technology, which is a program called JAWS, which actually reads out everything that I need to access.
00:38It puts it into audio form and I listen to it at 450 words a minute.
00:42It hasn't allowed him to allow this if an impairment.
00:46Tony, in terms of his disability or impairment and being blind, has also brought a really great focus on us
00:54as an organisation
00:55around some of our inclusive behaviours.
00:58The state public sector condition estimates that around 9% of public service workers are living with a disability.
01:05The state government has a target of 12%, but no equivalent data or target exists to work for counsellors.
01:13Cup 2!
01:13The sector in Shire says other counsellors should look for their private success as inspiration for their own diversity targets.
01:22It does give you a really clear reminder that the people of all abilities can strive themselves to do these
01:30great roles.
01:31There has to be that philosophy of, we need to focus on what we can do and not what we
01:36can't do.
01:36It is hard to receive the generation of the final awareness.
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