John Simpson, President, and Emma Bennison, CEO, are our guests in this week's New Horizons. We hear about the recently held AGM, a recent award, and information about who will be leading BCA's National Policy Council, Finance Audit and Risk Management ...
In this week's episode, we hear extracts from a presentation given following the 2019-20 Annual General Meeting of Blind Citizens Australia. Linda Agnew is the head of school of Science and Technology at the University of New England. Linda discusses h...
In Episode 627, we spoke with Ron McCallum AO about his book, Born at the Right Time. We bring you this interview again, as Ron will be joining Vision Australia's Stella Glorie for an online conversation next week. If you would like to register to be a...
In this week's episode we feature the editorial from the recently released Blind Citizens News magazine, edited by Jonathan Craig. Jonathan joins us to talk about his editorial and discuss the contents of this edition. Also a brief reminder about the N...
In this week's episode we speak with Ken Brandt, a new member of Blind Citizens Australia, and Tim Haggis, Membership Development Coordinator. Hear about the upcoming forum for new members of BCA, where new members can find out about the work of BCA and...
This week we feature the second part of the keynote speech given by Ambassador Webson, to the General Assembly of the ICEB, held online a few weeks ago. The entire proceedings of the GA are available on the website, https://live.braillecast.com/content....
This week, we hear the first of two programmes dedicated to the keynote speech given at the recently held ICEB General Assembly. We start with the introduction given to the assembly about the keynote speaker, who then goes on to discuss sustainable deve...
We speak this week with Rikki Chaplin, Advocacy Officer with BCA, about Independent Functional Assessments, what they mean to the blind and vision impaired community. Find out how you can have your say, and find out more information. BCA will be holdin...
In this week's New Horizons, we hear from Fiona Woods, director of Blind Citizens Australia and chair of the National Policy Council. Hear about the council, its work and members, and find out how you can become involved.
Graeme Innes speaks with Sarah Bolton, who whilst spending much of her life in Canada has lived in Australia for several years now. They discuss the difference in blindness services as well as attitudes to people who are blind or vision impaired and how...