Opinion pieces

Karen Knight, General Manager, Vision Australia Queensland has welcomed new funding from the Queensland Government’s Skilling Queenslanders for Work initiative.

Representatives of Vision Australia, along with a number of people who are blind or have low vision, met MPs in Canberra today to demonstrate audio description and lobby for its inclusion on Australian TV.

Father’s Day is a day to show our appreciation to our fathers and father figures. It’s a chance to tell the men who raise us that we value them. It’s a chance to reflect on being a Dad and having a Dad. The world is full of amazing fathers and Grant Baker is one such man.

In honour of Father’s Day, with three fathers talk about the specific challenges and joys of being a father when you are blind or vision-impaired, and what all fathers have in common.

It’s now over two years since the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) began and Vision Australia has over 200 clients participating in the scheme across the trial sites in Geelong, Newcastle, and Canberra and in the newly established roll-out in Western Sydney.

Stella speaks with Leah Van Poppel, the newly appointed CEO of Blind Citizens Australia (BCA). With the BCA celebrating its 40th anniversary and the upcoming conference in Perth in October, it’s an exciting time for the organisation.

This week on Talking Vision, Rosemary Boyd talking about the fabulous program for Retina Australia’s national congress Global Eyes 2015 happening in Melbourne in October.

Australian Greens Senator, Rachel Siewert, has moved a motion calling on the Government to change the Broadcasting Services Act 1992 so audio description is required on free-to-air and subscription television programs across all networks, similarly to captioning.

Minister for Families and Children, Jenny Mikakos, announced that the nominations have opened for the Premier's Volunteer Champions Awards, at the Seeing Eye Dogs Australia National Puppy Centre in Kensington.

Vision Australia volunteers and clients, Rhonda McCaw and Sue-Ann Hanson describe a recent outing to the Symbio Wildlife Park in Sydney.