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In 1992, Elizabeth Hastings was appointed as Australian's first Disability Discrimination Commissioner. She indeed created a remarkable history, but her life was not very straightforward. Born with polio aka infantile paralysis, she only ever dreamt to break free from the dependence on others. She was born in England, and she contracted polio when she was 6 months old. She lost all her power of movement shortly after her birth with very small hope of survival from doctors. Ev