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  • It’s time to reconsider electronic voting at Federal elections
    As the Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters considers submissions into the Inquiry on the 2016 Federal Election, Vision Australia is calling for a re-examination of the benefits that accessible electronic voting could deliver to the blindness and low vision community.
  • Twenty years of volunteering recognised with a second Vision Australia Award
    June 2016 marked a significant milestone for Cliff Jackson, as the 91 year-old celebrated his 20th anniversary of volunteering with Vision Australia.
  • Recognising vision champions
    At today’s Annual General Meeting the following people were recognised with a Vision Australia Award for their service and support of the blindness and low vision community.
  • Hitting home runs
    Landon is a typical seven-year-old boy who loves spending time with his friends, building worlds in Minecraft and playing baseball. He is a member of the Under 8’s Mets Viking team with the Mets Baseball Club in Catherine Field, NSW.
  • Vision Australia launches See Like Me
    Vision Australia has today launched See Like Me, a campaign to showcase the incredible things people with low vision are achieving as part of this week’s World Sight Day and International White Cane Day.
  • Australia and Canada exchange first books under the Marrakesh Treaty
    Australians who are blind or have low vision are the first in the world to benefit from the Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works for Persons Who Are Blind, Visually Impaired, or Otherwise Print Disabled through the symbolic exchange of book titles between Vision Australia and CNIB (Canada).
  • Time for some vision in the Australian Parliament
    It is time for people with disability to be given a voice within the Australian parliament and to reflect the diversity of the community whom our parliamentarians represent.
  • New regulations needed to open the door for ridesharing users with disability
    Vision Australia today urged a Victorian Parliamentary hearing to implement regulations related to accessibility, fare subsidies and driver training to enable over 90,000 Victorians, who are blind or have low vision, to participate fully in the ridesharing economy.
  • New $5 banknote bumps into circulation
    The release of the new $5 banknote – which for the first time in Australian currency history includes a tactile feature – is considered a significant win for the blindness and low vision community, as it will support people to independently and accurately identify the cash they are handling.
  • Australia is coming last in the race to provide audio description on TV
    Blindness and low vision advocates are asking the Federal Government when audio-described content will be made permanently available on Australian television.