In this week's edition, Graeme Innes speaks with Jamie Kelly about the Vision Australia Library. Jamie tells us how people may join the library, some of the ways we can get books, newspapers and more for the holiday break, and what sort of material is a...
In this episode, we visit the 44th Annual General Meeting of Blind Citizens Australia, held in Sydney on the 30th of November. Hear John Simpson, BCA President, and Emma Bennison, CEO, as they detail the Year in Review. Note, this is an edited summary,...
In this episode, following some news from Blind Citizens Australia's Annual General Meeting, held last Saturday, an interesting discussion with Angel Dixon, Chief Executive Officer of the Attitude Foundation. Angel describes the foundation, and an inter...
In this week's episode, we speak with returning guest, Erica Tandori. You may remember the exhibition which was held in May last year, highlighting immunology and infections etc. This time, Erica and her team are fighting cancer, once again at Monash U...
In this episode, we speak with Sonali Marathe, president of the Round Table on Information Access for people with a print disability, about their next conference, and an opportunity to present. Abstracts for papers are due in by the 29th of November. S...
In this programme, we hear all about the Blind Citizens Australia elections. The focus is on voting, and we have a demonstration of the new voting process. Thanks to the returning officer for her assistance with this.
In this week's edition of New Horizons, we speak with three of the four candidates for the two available positions on this year's BCA board. Steve Richardson, Lauren Henley and Doug McGinn explain their backgrounds, and their hopes for their election to...
In this programme, we speak with Professor Ron McCallum AO, who recently wrote and published his autobiography. Here from Ron about his impetus for writing the bookhis views on technology and more.
The focus this week is on public transport. Graeme Innes speaks with Sally Aurisch, BCA's NSW/ACT Coordinator, and BCA member, and New Horizons regular, Susan Thompson about new developments in transport in NSW and the ACT. The Sydney branch of BCA rec...
In this week's programme, we speak with Naomi Barber, who is in charge of a new project to evaluate and improve Economic Parcipitation of Blind and Vision Impaired people in Australia. This is a project funded by the National Disability Insurance Agency...