"I want opportunities created for the 9% of our student population with disability. That's 1.6 million students in Australia. That's 144,000 students with some form of disability, which is bigger than 3-4 of the big Universities." - Paul Harpur.
When Paul Harpur was hit by a train he lost his eyesight. Already feeling that "teenage boys don't wanna stand out for the wrong reason", sport not only became a community for Paul but lead him to representing Australia in Goalball in the Sydney 2000 Paralympics and a world record in Athletics at the Commonwealth games where he ran the "Time of his life".
Now working with the Hon. Minister Jason Clare for Education on the University's Accord Reform., Paul's mission stands with helping students with disability not only get equality and access to their education but also to train lecturers, professors, and teachers how to support their students in the classroom by providing the correct resources.
Paul is an Professor at the University of Queensland Law School, an Academic Fellow at the Harvard Law School Project on Disability, an international distinguished fellow with the Burton Blatt Institute.
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