Weltnachrichten – AU – Former journalist and ALP candidate escorted out of the café

Former Queensland Labor candidate for Dickson, Ali France, has revealed the « cruel ». This is how she was treated in a popular café.

Former journalist and Labor hopefuls Ali France has revealed a troubling story about the gruesome way she was treated in a Queensland cafe last month.

Ms. France, whose left leg was amputated above the knee in 2011 after being hit by a runaway car in a shopping mall parking lot, asked if she should tell the story, but decided on International Day The time was right for people with disabilities.

« Because there is always someone in the handicapped bay without permission, someone standing in line to a wheelchair, someone in a handicapped toilet who shouldn’t be there, and a man who says you just have to get up and go « She wrote on Twitter.

On a Twitter thread, Ms. France announced that she had undergone another operation a few weeks ago and was using an electric scooter to get around.

On 21. On November 1st, after the operation, she ventured out on her first shopping trip with her children. She said « Movement Hurt » and they stopped at Jamaica Blue at Indooroopilly Shopping Center to buy some hot chocolates, but the cafe was very full and she could not bring her scooter in.

The mother of two sent her eldest son inside to order drinks while she waited outside, got off her scooter, and sat at a table with her youngest son.

« I was relieved to get off the scooter as it has no wood support. Another family was sitting across from us, ”she said.

Her relief was short-lived, however, when a waitress came over to tell her that she couldn’t sit at the table if she hadn’t ordered something. She explained to the waitress that her son had ordered from the counter, but was then informed that the area they were sitting in was about to close.

Ali France lost her leg after a runaway car hit her in a parking lot. Image: Darren England / AAP Source: AAP

« I said I had surgery, was an amputee and wanted to stay while waiting for the order, » Ms. France said in a tweet.

But the waitress left and returned with a man who also said they had to go.

« I asked him to let us stay until the order was placed. I just left a hospital. « . He said if I didn’t move he would call security, ”said Ms. France.

« I looked at the family next to us, who were firmly in their seats and weren’t told to move.

« I said call security, we just bought hot chocolates from you and they have yet to be delivered.

« Then he said, how dare you, when asked to go, you go. He went away. ”

The man later returned and said that she had only ordered hot drinks and had to order food to be able to sit at a table. He also said Ms. France did not sign the COVID sheet.

Ms. France said she was happy to sign the sheet, but it was on the counter inside and she couldn’t reach it. The man said he called security.

“Security has arrived. I had tears in my eyes. I explained that I was sitting and waiting for my order. The order has arrived, ”wrote Ms. France.

A photo of Jamaica Blue in the Indooroopilly Shopping Center from 2013. Image: Indooroopilly Shopping Center / FacebookSource: Delivered

« The security guard was very nice – » just sit there, there must be a misunderstanding, I’ll bring you the COVID form « . ”

However, when the security guard came back he said the cafe wouldn’t allow her to check in and he had to ask her to leave.

“A lot of people saw and stared around us. I hadn’t even had a chance to take a sip of the hot chocolate. I got back on the scooter SOBBING.

Ms. France said the waitress and the man who asked her to leave could easily have left her at the table.

« You could have let me sign the COVID form, you could have waited 10 minutes. The café didn’t close for another hour. You have chosen to be cruel, ”she wrote.

« Today on #IDPWD I think we need to talk about it. We have to call out #ableism.

The cafe has a rating of 3. 5 out of 5 on TripAdvisor, with some praising the coffee while others complaining about the « rude » and « aggressive » service.

I asked if I would tell this story because it contains a sense of shame. A terrible sense of doom that it could have been my fault somehow, I embarrassed my kids, I could have done things differently. But today on #IDPW # IDPW2020 is worth telling. 1/14 # disability

Ms. France is the eldest daughter of former Queensland Labor MP Peter Lawlor and has been involved in a high profile campaign to oust Home Secretary Peter Dutton during the 2019 election.

She came to light after being accused by Mr Dutton of using her disability as an « excuse » for not being part of the electorate. The then Labor leader Bill Shorten described this claim as « disgusting ». .

Ms. France lost her leg in May 2011 when a runaway car driven by an elderly man pushed her into another vehicle in front of the Highpoint Shopping Center in Brisbane.

She was pushing her son Zac into a stroller when the car crashed into her. She almost bled to death after the collision severed her femoral artery.

This week the Disability Royal Commission released a scathing report that found that no government agencies made substantial efforts to consult people with disabilities in the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic.

People with disabilities felt anxious and stressed and were forgotten by both governments and the wider community.

Ali France fought Peter Dutton as a Labor candidate for Dickson’s seat in 2019. Image: Glenn Hunt / AAPSource: AAP

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