The so-called special roads can only help the blind, but they are a great effort to protect the interests of the disabled.

Historically, such roads would have to wait decades for them to appear, but the current emergence of special roads is expected to improve the living standards and well-being of people with disabilities in Australasia.

The fastest change is in Sydney, especially in the urban area, which soon paved a special road of about 40 to 50 centimeters, with special colors and easily recognizable patterns, and the feet can have an obvious sense of awkward feet when stepping on it, which is convenient for the blind to identify whether it is a special road.

After the paving of the special road in Sydney, the former newspaper reporter Daisy Dorrich also deliberately returned to the blind school that he had interviewed before, and invited the blind child to walk on the newly built blind street in Sydney and experience the feeling of walking alone on the street.

Of course, although it is said that you are walking alone on the street, you are accompanied by other people to ensure that there are no accidents.

On the faces of the blind children, they finally showed a smile and a happy color.

As a special path of great significance for the blind, it soon entered the curriculum of these blind people.

The school for the blind will also establish a special model road, so that many blind people in the school can recognize the road that allows them to walk on the street, and at the same time facilitate them to better recognize the difference between ordinary roads and special roads.

Since mid-June, Sydney's streets have noticeably more blind people. These blind people generally walk on special paths, and there are more enthusiastic people around them to pay attention to them to prevent accidents that may occur at any time.

This special road that allows the blind to get out of their homes is also affectionately known as the love channel, which has been praised by many media and newspapers, and has also made the blind community and blind families very grateful.

But the establishment of special roads is not only good news. The first is the cost of road reconstruction on a national scale, not only to design special roads, but also to renovate existing roads, the overall budget is too large, and the number of blind people in some areas is too small, and there is not much need to renovate.

The second is that special roads are easily occupied by other people or vehicles. Blind people can't see, and if there are dangerous obstacles ahead, the existence of special roads becomes the biggest danger.

In response to these two problems, the Cabinet, after consulting Arthur, also made certain improvements to the previous special road construction.

First of all, the scope and budget for the construction of special roads have changed from the original transformation of all cities in the country to the transformation of large cities with a large number of blind people.

As a result, the only cities that need to be renovated are Sydney and Melbourne, as well as large cities such as state capitals, and small cities do not need to be renovated for the time being.

The municipal governments in these large cities are basically able to pay for the road renovation on their own, which means that the construction of special roads is almost impossible for the government to afford, which is good news for the government's finances.

And although the construction of special roads has been reduced, it is still possible to facilitate the majority of blind people out of their homes.

After all, there are not many people with disabilities in Australasia, and even fewer people are blind.

These people are generally distributed in major cities, or in small villages and towns, and there is not much need to build special roads.

In response to the second problem, the government has issued a rule prohibiting anyone from occupying special roads at any time, and violators will be fined hefty and even detained.

Moreover, any accidents caused by the occupation of special roads are the responsibility of the occupants of special roads, which can be regarded as a sword hanging over everyone's heads, so that they can think carefully about whether it is worth occupying special roads.

To put it bluntly, it is just a 40 to 50 centimeter wide path, which will not bring any benefit if you occupy it, and you will have to face high fines or even imprisonment, and you will have to bear the corresponding risks, which is not cost-effective at all.

Of course, the occupancy here refers to the long-term occupancy. If it is just an ordinary person who walks around, he will not be punished, and the scope of occupation is mainly to see whether it will hinder the traffic of special roads, and the length of time it will be occupied.

While the special roads were still hot across the country, these two regulations were also quickly promulgated and immediately implemented.

Judging from the reactions of all walks of life after the promulgation of the two regulations, the public is quite satisfied with these two regulations.

In particular, the prohibition of occupancy of special roads, which ensures that blind people do not have any obstacles in front of them, is complementary to the special roads themselves.

After the problem of the blind has been properly resolved, the next step is the hotly discussed issue of welfare policies for the disabled and improving the quality of life of the disabled.

The population of people with disabilities in Australasia can be roughly divided into three types, one is congenital disability, one is foreign disability, and the other is acquired disability.

At present, the number of people is relatively large in the first and third categories, and the number of foreign disabled people is still relatively small, and most of them live in big cities, and the quality of life can still be guaranteed.

To put it bluntly, even if you are disabled, if you don't have a good net worth, it is impossible to immigrate to Australasia.

At present, the price of an ocean ferry ticket is still relatively expensive, and most of the disabled people immigrate with their families, which is a large expense for ordinary families.

Some families even smashed the pot and sold iron, using most of their life savings just to immigrate to Australasia, which also cut off their hope of immigrating again to a considerable extent.

Immigration is equivalent to a high investment for most immigrants, and most people will not choose to immigrate if it is not really impossible to live in the original area where they lived.

Of course, there is also a type of immigration with a strong purpose, such as the gold diggers attracted by the previous gold rush.

When the desire to make money is far greater than people's fear of the unknown, it can also make people think about immigration quite violently.

For those who are acquired to be disabled, except for those who are disabled due to various accidents, most of the rest are soldiers who were disabled during the original war.

In fact, these servicemen are also guaranteed by quite generous pensions, their living materials and living standards are no different from ordinary people, and they have never expressed their dissatisfaction with the government from the beginning to the end.

This is also one of the things that Australasia is doing better than other countries, which is to have a fairly good pension system for soldiers who have been disabled in the war and soldiers who have been discharged from the army.

This also makes the Australasian army far ahead in terms of morale, and the soldiers have enough morale, and the combat strength of the army will be stronger.

There are many rights that people with disabilities need to protect, which can be roughly divided into the right to education, the right to work and the right to a normal life.

The right to education is still relatively easy to solve, and there are already a considerable number of schools for the disabled in Sydney and Melbourne, and the encouragement of other large cities to build corresponding schools for the blind and schools for the disabled can guarantee the right to education for most disabled people.

It's not a big investment, as there aren't many people with disabilities in Australasia.

As a result, cities and governments have moved quickly, and schools for the disabled in many cities have been put on the agenda, and even submitted to the local city councils for approval for funding.

The right to work is more difficult to solve, after all, most ordinary people have a huge advantage over these disabled people, and the capitalists will not harm their own interests and deliberately recruit these disabled people.

Therefore, if we want to ensure the right to work and increase the income of these disabled people, we must find ways to build more jobs suitable for people with disabilities, or build some jobs that will not be affected by people with disabilities.

However, such situations are still relatively rare, and most positions still require able-bodied people, or even people who can do manual work, which is very different from the situation of the disabled.

In order to improve the living standards of the disabled, the government can only focus on another aspect, that is, to increase subsidies for the disabled.

This is left to the Royal Relief Committee. The Relief Committee could establish contact with the municipalities to further clarify the number of persons with disabilities and negotiate with the Government for a certain amount of subsidy.

However, it is probably some material subsidies to ensure that the disabled can live like ordinary people, at least in terms of food and housing.

Then there are the needs of normal life. Encourage people to treat people with disabilities well, prohibit discrimination against them, and pay attention to some aspects of difficulties for people with disabilities, such as building barrier-free roads next to stairs, etc., which needs to be promoted by the whole country.

Although a large part of these policies have only just begun to be implemented or even planned, they are already a great hope for those with disabilities.

The responses of people with disabilities reported in the newspapers also show that these groups are grateful for the attention of the Government and Parliament, as well as all Australasian people, and that this special group of people has been brought to a successful conclusion.

The disabled community is very grateful to the government, and the people are very satisfied with the results, which is also a relatively good result.

Because of Arthur's timely voice in this incident, as well as the timely response of the government and parliament, the masses are quite satisfied with the government, and the cohesion of the country has also been invisibly improved.

This is actually very simple, the people can see the government's efforts, can see the government's care for the people, this is enough.

Perhaps what the people want is not a perfect result, but the concern of the members of the city council, from Arthur to the states, to the basic life of the people, not empty talk.

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