New Horizons

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 they differ between the two countries.

Graeme Innes speaks with David Saxburg and Paul Price from BCA's Brisbane branch. The Brisbane branch took a positive approach to Covid-19, to include the broader Queensland Community for social, online, gatherings.

In this week's episode, we speak with John Simpson, BCA president, and CEO, Emma Bennison about the upcoming Annual General Meeting of Blind Citizens Australia. Find out the time and date for the AGM, who is up for re-election this year and how the election process will be managed.

In this week's episode we hear from Sally Aurisch about the upcoming BCA Connect event. Find out what will be featured, how you can register and more. As well, we hear from Stephen Belbin about the upcoming Aboriginal Blind People's forum, coming up on the 30th of September.

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.

This week we hear from Dale Cleaver, CEO of Guide Dogs NSW/ACT, about an interesting role currently being advertised by Guide Dogs 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 some of our regular listeners, Graeme hijacks the programme to find out a bit about Vaughn's life.

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 precisely what is a "Thin Market".

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 service might be used.