article_snippet: Disability rights advocate Jax-Jacki Brown was at the National Disability Summit at Melbourne's Sheraton Hotel last Thursday and was outraged by the oversight.
article_snippet: Ms Brown - who is a wheelchair-user herself - said it was degrading to see a person in a wheelchair be treated like that. '
article_snippet: It speaks volumes about the space the National Disability Summit was held in. '
article_snippet: Susan Ryan, who is the disability discrimination commissioner at the Australian Human Rights Commission, said Ms Brown - who is a wheelchair-user herself - had written to the organisers of the National Disability Summit.
article_snippet: Disability rights advocate Jax-Jacki Brown was at the National Disability Summit and said it was a degrading sight to see .
article_snippet: But this is not the first controversy the National Disability Summit has attracted.
article_snippet: This year, only seven people with a disability were allowed to attend the two-day conference, causing a social media outrage.
highlights_snippet: Speaker Deborah Haygarth was speaking at the National Disability Summit .
  
highlights_snippet: Disability rights advocate Jax-Jacki Brown was at Melbourne conference .
  
highlights_snippet: Jax-Jacki Brown said it was degrading to see Speaker Deborah Haygarth treated in that matter .
  