Interview Highlights from Vision Australia Radio
Featuring interview highlights, bonus content and more from across Vision Australia Radio.
Episodes
The 12th Annual Petbarn Foundation Seeing Eye Dogs Appeal has launched. Janelle Miller X, award-winning CEO from the Petbarn Foundation, tells Peter Greco how to get involved. Seeing Eye Dogs provide vital support, constant companionship, independence and contribute to an all-round better quality of life for people in our community who are blind or have low vision.
More info: Petbarn Foundation Seeing Eye Dogs Appeal
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Vision Australia's winter webinar series, featuring some outstanding speakers and role-models is up and running. Maria Markou files Peter Greco in with all the details of how to register, tune in and listen on Mondays for the next 3 weeks.
More info: VA winter webinar series
or call: 1800 458 555
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Sam speaks to Vision Australia volunteer partnership coordinator Jordan Ashby about this month's Winter Webinar Series taking place through Telelink every Monday this July.
To find out about this month's speakers and to register, head to this link on the Vision Australia website.
You can also give Telelink a call on 1800 458 555 or email them at Telelinkinfo@visionaustralia.org.
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Peter Greco chats with Tom Worsnop, Engagement Manager from Guardian Living, a Specialist Disability Accommodation (SDA) provider. Guardian Living can help provide thoughtfully designed SDA homes and ongoing tenancy support, helping people with disabilities live well and feel truly at home.
More info: Guardian Living
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In this interview highlight, Jason Gipps speak with Grant Wilson from Vision Australia’s Client Services team ahead of his appearance at the In the Driver’s Seat event, copresented by Lions Australia and Vision Australia.
Grant shares how this annual event gets blind or l...
Tim Wilson is co-founder and co-director of Folk Architects, an award-winning architecture practice with a vision to create inclusive and equitable spaces that engage with the community. They activate spaces by integrating art, design, science, and technology in a collaborative user-generated way. In this conversation, Tim talks about how his practice aims to make better built world, not just for the disability community, but for t...
Sam speaks with Specsavers optometry director, Greeshma Patel, about new research which shows three quarters of Australians aged 35 to 50 have never heard of a common age-related eye condition known as presbyopia, which is likely to be the cause of their vision issues.
Greeshma fills us in on the details about presbyopia, and the signs to look out for if you or someone you know may be living with the condition.
Sam speaks to Intopia's principal digital accessibility consultant, Andrew Arch, about the work Intopia have recently been doing with the Australian Human Rights Commission.
They've produced a new set of guidelines around digital access for users with disabilities including blindness or low vision which you can find here.
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Olivia Barry, Chief Operating Officer for 13 Cabs, and Anna Tyon, Head of Passenger Experience, shares news with Peter Greco about their latest updates. This includes a better training system for drivers dealing with complaints, as well as a streamlined way to access a cab if you have an assistance animal.
Call: 132227 or email: customer.care@13cabs.com.au
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Sam is joined by David Davenport, accessible formats production manager at Blind Vision NZ, who visited Australia recently to take part in a round table conference with a special interest in print disability and accessible printing for clients in New Zealand.
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In this interview highlight Sam speaks with Dr Jenny Crosbie, interim director of the Centre for Inclusive Employment, run through Swinburne University to drive better outcomes for employees and job seekers with disabilities in Australia.
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Sam speaks to Kris Rallah-Baker, Australia's first Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander ophthalmologist based on the Sunshine Coast, who has also done work with the Deadly Vision Clinic in Darwin as well as clinical community outreach in remote communities of the Northern Territory.
He is part of a new series on SBS and NITV called Our Medicine, which follows the stories of First Nations medical professionals and patients as they n...
In this Interview Highlight, Kelly Schulz, Founder and Director for Knowable Me, shares the great news with Peter Greco that Knowable Me is now officially certified as a Social Enterprise by Social Traders.
More info: Knowable Me
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Melbourne magazine publish a print magazine four times a year to share news about City of Melbourne projects, people, places and events.
Melbourne magazine is distributed to public spaces like libraries, cafes and community hubs in December, March, June and September.
Stories from Melbourne magazine are also published digitally to this Melbourne News website, alongside many more online-only articles.
T...
In this interview highlight, Seeing Eye Dogs Show presenter Harriet, speaks to Jasmine Tevelein.
On Wednesday September 18, 2024, the Seeing Eye Dogs celebrated 42 client and Seeing Eye Dogs teams who graduated in the 2023/2024 financial year including three grads from our Youth Program. Jasmine discusses outcomes with Harriet.
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Kelly Schulz, Founder and Director of Knowable Me and Peter Greco discuss the results of a recent survey concerning people with disabilities access to information about the election. Privacy, staff training and the voting process itself are areas of concern.
More info: Knowable Me
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Peter Greco chats with Sarah Pulis and Andrew Arch from Intopia about what they do and their recent work with the Human Rights Commission. Intopia is a leading digital accessibility and equitable design agency, who offer services across accessibility assessments, conformance reports, education, strategy, operations, and equitable research and design.
More info: Intopia
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Sam is joined by Jeanna Manifold and Kate Gooden from Amazon's Alexa department to give us some updates on what Amazon is up to in the accessibility space with regards to their Alexa speakers, and what they got up to at the recent Round Table Conference covering topics related to blindness, low vision and print disability.
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Deputy Mayor from Moonee Valley, Fran Cosgriff, chats with Peter Greco about their Inclusive Moonee Valley competition. Already some amazing entries have been submitted.
More info: Inclusive Moonee Valley Competition
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Sam catches up with Jonathan Craig from Vision 2020 and Brandon Ah Tong from Fred Hollows Foundation, who have both recently returned from the International Association for the Prevention of Blindness' conference in Nepal.
Among other things Brandon speaks about his new role as the chair of the IAPB's West Pacific region, and Jonathan speaks about his first IAPB conference, as they put things in place for a Global Eye Health Summit...
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