In this week's episode, we speak with Sophie Wild from Guide Dogs Victoria. Sophie joins us to discuss a new community hub which has been developed to promote peer support and information sharing foir blind and vision impaired people across Australia.
In this week's extended episode of New Horizons, Graeme Innes joins us to ... well, turn the tables on Vaughn Bennison, our regular New Horizons producer and presenter. Vaughn has produced New Horizons now for nearly five years, and at the request of so...
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 preci...
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 servic...
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 peop...
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 blin...
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.
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...
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.