About Time is a website and soon a paper for Australian prisons and detention facilities, and the paper will be read on Vision Australia Radio. Peter Greco chats with Joseph Friedman, the Managing Director for About Time.

Learn more here: About Time

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VA has partnered with The Melbourne Writers Festival. Leeanne Surjadi, from the Vision Australia Library, fills in Peter Greco with all the details.

To find out more call 1300 654 656 or go to: Melbourne Writers Festival Toby Walsh

Melbourne Writers Festival Louise Milligan

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In this podcast highlight, Sam is joined by Australian Disability Network CEO Corene Strauss. Corene shares an update about the upcoming ADN awards night and Impact 2024 Conference, taking place May 9 in Melbourne. Vision Australia Radio is a proud media partner of Impact 2024.

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Vision Australia Radio community engagement coordinator Jason Gipps speaks to Dr. Narelle Beer Executive Director, Health and Safety at Worksafe Victoria, to learn about Worksafe's latest awareness campaign, and how individuals can call out unacceptable Work Related Gendered Violence. The interview also explores additional avenues of support for people living with disability who may be experiencing Work Related Gendered Violence and what the disability sector can do to create a safer working environment. 

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Finance Guru Neville Houghton discusses what you need to know about on long-term investing - patience is a virtue and the key.

Neville has spent 60 years as a CPA and member of the Australian Society of Certified Public Accountants and today offers financial advice to Vision Australia Radio listeners.

Please note that advice within this podcast is of a general nature only and individual circumstances will mean different results for individual people. Neville provides points of contact within this podcast but we highly encourage you make an informed decision before contacting a financial planner and making an informed decision before committing to any products or services from any individual, business or organization at any time.

Neville can be reached on 0452 596 855 during business hours.

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Sam catches up on Talking Vision with Fiona Demark, customer relations officer at the Victorian Government Department of Transport and Planning, about their Try Before You Ride event.

The even will be taking place at Southern Cross station on 9 May from 10am to 2pm, for passengers who are blind or have low vision to find out more about the network and test out the different modes of transport in a safe, supportive environment.

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Bridget Jolley, women empowerment officer for Women with Disabilities Victoria, is inviting women and non-binary people to apply for WWDV’s acclaimed Enabling  Women Leadership Program. Peter Greco catches up on the latest news.

For more information call 03 9287813

email: [email protected]

or go to: Women With Disabilities Victoria

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The Reading Writing Hotline is celebrating 30 years and going strong. During that time over 180,000 people have used this service. Manager, Vanessa Iles, chats with Peter Greco about it’s history and future.

Call 1300 655 506

More info: Reading Writing Hotline

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Coming up in early May, the Melbourne Writers' Festival is back underway for 2024 running from 6 to 12 May, including two events at Vision Australia's office in Kooyong on the evening of Friday May 10.

To have a chat about the upcoming festival Sam was joined on Talking Vision by Melbourne Writers' Festival artistic director Michaela McGuire, who filled us in on the details about the two events and what else people can look forward to around Melbourne over the week.

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The Reading Writing Hotline recently celebrated its 30th birthday and joining Sam on Talking Vision to chat all about it was Reading Writing Hotline manager Vanessa Iles.

Vanessa spoke about how the hotline got started, the ways in which people have benefited from the hotline over the past three decades, and the work they have done to help callers who are blind or have low vision to access the literacy and numeracy services they need.

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