Media Releases

Our six Travelling Visionaries hit the road to meet with key candidates in the March 28 NSW State Election.

Today, a group of ten Labrador puppies, aged from eight weeks to 16 months, got up close and personal with fire trucks at the Roma Street Fire Station in Brisbane.

Charlestown teenager Connor Wink has released his first single on iTunes.

To make television broadcasts more accessible for the more than 350,000 Australians who are blind or have low vision, Vision Australia is taking action in the Australian Human Rights Commission against Seven, Nine, Ten, SBS and Foxtel.

Vision Australia applauds the Reserve Bank of Australia, who today announced that the next generation of Australian banknotes will include a tactile feature to assist people who are blind or have low vision.

Vision Australia calls on the Minister for Social Services, Scott Morrison to immediately return funding to Blind Citizens Australia (BCA).

A robotic soccer ball is set to improve social ball game participation for people with visual impairment, thanks to a team of University of Queensland engineers and Vision Australia.

Queensland’s leading provider of services to people who are blind or have low vision, is calling on candidates and their parties to ensure funding is directed to support Queenslanders with vision-impairment, particularly seniors.

A new computer system, that allows voters who are blind or have low vision to vote independently and in secret, is being used as part of an accessible voting trial by the Electoral Commission Queensland for the first time at the 2015 Queensland state election.

Braille is used by people who are blind or have low vision as an essential communications tool and yesterday marked the birthday of inventor Louis Braille.