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The united voice of Australians who are blind or vision impaired.
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Wednesday Aug 19, 2020
Wednesday Aug 19, 2020
We speak with Dianna Kube and Rikki Chaplin from Blind Citizens Australia about an upcoming discussion to inform BCA's work on addressing the needs of members living in "thin market" areas. Find out how you can attend to make your views known, and precisely what is a "Thin Market".
Tuesday Aug 11, 2020
Tuesday Aug 11, 2020
In this episode we speak with Graeme Innes and Susan Thompson about a successful move to get acess for blind and vision impaired Sydney travelers, to the AIRA service. They discuss how this can take the stress out of train travel and how else the service might be used.
Monday Aug 03, 2020
Monday Aug 03, 2020
In this week's programme we speak with New Horizons regular, and BCA staff-member, Rikki Chaplin. Rikki has been working hard on putting together a response paper to submit to the Royal Commission on the abuse, neglect, violence and exploitation of people with disabilities. Hear about Rikki's paper and the response he hopes to receive from the commission.
Tuesday Jul 28, 2020
Tuesday Jul 28, 2020
Thank you to the person who reminded me that I had neglected to republish part II of Padraig Naughton's interview, from 2016. Padraig visited Australia some years ago from Ireland, and we took some time to discuss the differences, at that time, for blind and vision impaired people, between our two countries. Also some more good news for watchers of audio described television.
Wednesday Jul 22, 2020
Wednesday Jul 22, 2020
This week we speak with Belinda O'Connor from Bioptic Drivers Australia. Hear about Bioptic driving, and the establishment of a legal framework to promote bioptic driving and make it easier to be assessed as a bioptic driver.
Tuesday Jul 14, 2020
Tuesday Jul 14, 2020
We harken back to episode 459 in this week's episode. Ahead of some news for Sydney branch members, we replay an interview from 2016. Graeme Innes, no stranger to New Horizons and to BCA generally, published his book around then. If you've not read it yet, here's a great opportunity. Graeme tells us of his motivation to write the book, and a bit about the process.
Wednesday Jul 08, 2020
Wednesday Jul 08, 2020
The focus this week is on the upcoming edition of Blind Citizens News, Blind Citizens Australia's quarterly magazine. Ahead of an interview with editor, Jonathan Craig, we bring you this edition's editorial.
Wednesday Jul 01, 2020
Wednesday Jul 01, 2020
Audio description is again our feature on New Horizons this week. We speak with Will McRostie from Melbourne, about Description Victoria, and a really interesting partnership with the National Gallery of Victoria.
Tuesday Jun 23, 2020
Tuesday Jun 23, 2020
In this week's programme we speak with returning guest, and BCA staff-member, Angela Jaeschke. Angela discusses her new role, and informs us of the impending commencement of a long awaited service! Also, Angela discusses some issues papers which BCA is currently formulating a response on.
Tuesday Jun 16, 2020
Tuesday Jun 16, 2020
We speak, in this week's episode, with Dianna Kube, and Tim Haggis, both of whom joined BCA two weeks ago - Dianna as Policy and Advocacy Team Leader, and Tim as Membership Development Coordinator. Find out about their background, and their views for the roles they have taken on.