Media Releases

As Rosie Batty’s Australian of the Year term comes to an end today, Vision Australia has named one of its 8-week-old Seeing Eye Dog pups after her son, Luke, as a tribute to her courage, resilience and tireless work to end family violence.

Vision Australia congratulates the Baird Government on a long awaited increase to the Taxi Transport Subsidy Scheme (TTSS).

An innovative toolbar that revolutionises the ease and speed of creating accessible documents in Microsoft Word has been launched, on International Day of People with Disability.

Vision Australia client and advocate, 15-year-old Connor McLeod, jointly won the Emerging Leader in Disability Awareness Award for campaigning for the introduction of tactile features on Australian banknotes.

With early voting now underway, voters who are blind or have low vision can register to access a telephone voting service for the 2015 North Sydney by-election.

Vision Australia is celebrating another advocacy success with the Queensland Government’s announcement of the introduction of an upgraded permanent go access Vision Impairment Travel Pass (VITP).

Vision Australia has announced the election of Andrew Moffat as Chair of Vision Australia. Mr Moffat was elected at yesterday’s Annual General Meeting in Melbourne.

Vision Australia has launched a campaign today, International White Cane Day, to educate the community about vision loss and white cane etiquette to improve the mobility experience of white cane users across Australia.

Vision Australia has won the Brisbane excellence in accessible transport category of Spinal Injuries Australia’s Inclusive Community Champions Awards, for their role in the go access Vision Impairment Travel Pass trial.

Vision Australia today congratulated Minister Fifield for his stewardship of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) over the past two years and his promotion to Cabinet and Minister for Communications.