Dr Kate Dempsey, CEO for ANZACATA, is very concerned that Australians with a disability who access arts therapy as a crucial therapeutic support have been left confused by an NDIS announcement last week regarding significant changes to the service.  

Find out more here: http://www.anzacata.org

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Penny Holmes-Brown is Service Area Manager from APM employment, the winner of this year's Link Vision Blind Australian of the year Employer of Choice Award.

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Peter's guest on Vision Extra is Courtney Webeck. Cricketer; Tennis Athlete and student Courtney is the 2024 Blind Australian of the year. 

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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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