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Media release — 2 December 2008ORDINARY PEOPLE, EXTRAORDINARY LIVESA peace activist, a multicultural performer, Queensland's only ordained Indigenous Baptist minister and a Muslim community leader are among the many and diverse books available for "loan" at the State Library of Queensland's Living Library on Wednesday, 10 December 2008. The Living Library provides a unique opportunity to gain an understanding of life from someone else's perspective. Each Book within the Living Library represents groups in the community who experience prejudice and discrimination and they all have a story to tell - stories about migrating to Australia, growing up in the Depression, choosing to live as a woman, caring for a child with a disability, fighting against elder abuse, or 'coming out'. 'Every story is unique', said Anti-Discrimination Commissioner Susan Booth, 'and every story is worth hearing. I've talked to many of our books, and I'm amazed with their resilience and optimism in the face of sometimes extraordinary discrimination against them'. The Living Library commemorates the 60th anniversary of the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights. The Declaration, passed in December 1948, recognised for the first time, the fundamental rights and freedoms we all have. The Anti-Discrimination Commission and the State Library are jointly presenting the event to celebrate human rights in Australia. The Living Library is open from10am to 2pm on Wednesday, 10 December 2008 at the State Library, Southbank. There are no booking fees but visitors will need to register to 'borrow' the book of their choice. For further comment contact Ms Susan Booth
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