Opinion pieces

In an Australian first, the Vision Australia Information Library Service (VAILS) will launch an exciting new online service to assist people who are blind, have low vision or a print disability.

Talking Vision is Vision Australia's national radio program on blindness and low vision.

Legislation passed through the House of Representatives last night to help fund DisabilityCare Australia, with an emotive speech from Prime Minister Julia Gillard.

Jean Lowe, from Croydon, has been serving the community by helping people who are blind or have low vision lead better lives. She has worked as a volunteer at Vision Australia for 25 years.

Vera feels that helping people who are blind or have low vision to be independent provides her with a valuable link to the community

A desire to quietly help people who are blind or have low vision to lead better lives has driven Cliff Jackson, 87, to volunteer with Vision Australia for more than 18 (eighteen) years.

Vision Australia's Deputy Chair Ron McCallum AO has been named as this year’s Patron for International Day of People with Disability.

Forget Master Chef and My Kitchen Rules, an event being organised by a small but dedicated team of Wollongong volunteers will require diners to read and decode a braille menu, eat a meal in the dark and hold and consume all drinks with their non-dominant hand.

Mrs Libby Dickeson of Lake Macquarie describes herself as a ‘typical retiree’ but those she has assisted at Vision Australia, Newcastle, for the past 20 years know Libby is far from typical.

Long time Gosford resident Helen Murray volunteers with Vision Australia because she loves to give and receive smiles.