Education is essential to improving opportunities and choices for people who are blind or have low vision. With official figures released this month by the Australian Bureau of Statistics, showing a decline in workforce participation among people with disability, and a strong link between education as a pathway to employment – support for education is vital.
The South Australia Government has announced that new legislation will be debated to allow people of all ages to ride bicycles on the footpath. We will be writing to all South Australian politicians this week asking them to vote against this Bill.
Vision Australia is reaching out to NSW election candidates to ask for their commitment on six key election priorities: education, employment, getting around, access to information, service continuity and accessible voting through iVote.
Vision Australia applauds the Reserve Bank of Australia, who today announced that the next generation of Australian banknotes will include a tactile feature to assist people who are blind or have low vision.
This week we hear an interview Stephen Jolley conducted with Patrick Moore - the President of the Macular Vision Loss Support Society about the work of the society and their 20 year anniversary.
This week in the final program presented by Stephen Jolley, we talk education. A number of prominent blind Australians and New Zealanders reflect on special learning in their formative years.
Vision Australia calls on the Minister for Social Services, Scott Morrison to immediately return funding to Blind Citizens Australia (BCA).
On Saturday 28 March 2015 NSW will head to the polls for the NSW State Election.
Dawson, knows only too well what it’s like to be a young person with vision impairment and to feel isolated. Diagnosed with a rare autoimmune disease at just 15 years old, Dawson was blind within just five years.
A robotic soccer ball is set to improve social ball game participation for people with visual impairment, thanks to a team of University of Queensland engineers and Vision Australia.