Vision Extra by Vision Australia Radio

This is a special presentation of the interview featured on 25th September edition of Focal Point.  

Haben Girma, Deafblind Advocate Extraordinaire, is a guest speaker at UNSW
Centre of Ideas. Haben is the first Deafblind Harvard Graduate;
has been named one of the Forbes 30 Under 30 and was awarded the White
House Champion of Change - presented by President
Barack Obama.

This version of the interview features the full gap between Peter asking his questions and Haben answering. We made the creative decision to put a small gap in the on-air and podcast versions played on Focal Point.  You can find that version of the interview here: https://omny.fm/shows/focal-point/25-sep-2024 

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Kelly Schultz is the Founder and Director for knowable.me - a platform to share your thoughts about almost everything; take part in surveys; mystery shopping and product testing.  Find out more here: https://knowable.me/  

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Ross McGregor, talks about NAIDOC week. Ross also tells us how he found about his indigenous heritage at the age of 32

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Paul Brown, from audio described Aotearoa, and Brad Cohen, General Director for New Zealand Opera, with the world's first use of refreshable braille displays for readers to access surtitles for NZ Opera. To find out more go to: https://nzopera.com/whats-on/accessibility/

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Aymen Majeed has just written a book "RP and Me" recounting diagnosis; education; bullying; and now with a family. 

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Louise Milligan, investigative journalist and author, talked about being at "In Conversation" with the Vision Australia Library for the Melbourne Writers Festival.  Louise's book, "Pheasants Nest" is available through the Library.  Go to http://www.visionaustralia.org/library

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Nihal Iscel was inducted into the Western Australian Women Hall of Fame for her advocacy work. Nihal talked about Global Accessibility Awareness Day and how Instagram has become less accessible - in particular for people who are blind or vision impaired,

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Annette Leishman, involved with Blind Sports and Recreation Victoria as well as Parks Victoria, encouraged all to try "Birding By Ear" communing more with nature, for physical and mental health

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Peter talks to Dr Luis Alarcon-Martinez, from the Centre for Eye Research, sharing the latest news on glaucoma research.  You can find out more here: https://www.cera.org.au/ 

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