New Horizons

In this week's programme we speak with BCA Project Officer, Jo Webber, about a very interesting programme offering from Blind Citizens Australia. If you feel you have skills to share and are willing to learn new skills, this one is for you. Hear about the inception of the programme, its overall goals and how you can become involved. Also in this episode, some updates on the BCA podcasts. Find out...

In this week's episode, we hear part ii of the Daisy Consortium story, from 2018.  Hear about the exciting future of digital talking books and how DAISY has influenced electronic publishing in general. Find out more at https://new-horizons.pinecast.co

This week we repeat one of our more popular episodes from 2018. We hear the first of a two-part conversation about the inception and development of the DAISY Consortium.

In this week's episode we feature the second part of our presentations from the BCA Inform event, The Year That Was. Angela Jaeschke and Sally Aurisch, General managers of Operations and Member Engagement and Projects respectively, provide an update on what their teams have been working on over the past year. Hear about advocacy, member engagement, events, funding and more.

In this first episode of our holiday series of New Horizons, we feature presentations given at the BCA Inform event, held on the third of December. John Simpson, president of BCA, and Emma Bennison, CEO, provide a brief overview of Blind Citizens Australia's work over, what will be for most, an extremely memorable year.

In this week's episode, we go right back to my first regular New Horizons programme. In Episode 428 I spoke with Rikki Chaplin, Policy and Advocacy Team Leader with Blind Citizens Australia, about the advantages and disadvantages of moving interstate for work.

John Simpson, President, and Emma Bennison, CEO, are our guests in this week's New Horizons. We hear about the recently held AGM, a recent award, and information about who will be leading BCA's National Policy Council, Finance Audit and Risk Management and Stakeholder Engagement committees for the 2020-21 financial year.

In this week's episode, we hear extracts from a presentation given following the 2019-20 Annual General Meeting of Blind Citizens Australia. Linda Agnew is the head of school of Science and Technology at the University of New England. Linda discusses her career pathway thus far, and some of the barriers blind and vision impaired people face when attempting to gain careers in Science, Technology, E...

In Episode 627, we spoke with Ron McCallum AO about his book, Born at the Right Time. We bring you this interview again, as Ron will be joining Vision Australia's Stella Glorie for an online conversation next week. If you would like to register to be a part of this, contact the Vision Australia Library on 1300-654-656, or library@visionaustralia.org.

In this week's episode we feature the editorial from the recently released Blind Citizens News magazine, edited by Jonathan Craig. Jonathan joins us to talk about his editorial and discuss the contents of this edition. Also a brief reminder about the National Womens Branch AGM.

In this week's episode we speak with Ken Brandt, a new member of Blind Citizens Australia, and Tim Haggis, Membership Development Coordinator. Hear about the upcoming forum for new members of BCA, where new members can find out about the work of BCA and how they can become involved.

This week we feature the second part of the keynote speech given by Ambassador Webson, to the General Assembly of the ICEB, held online a few weeks ago. The entire proceedings of the GA are available on the website, https://live.braillecast.com/content.php

This week, we hear the first of two programmes dedicated to the keynote speech given at the recently held ICEB General Assembly. We start with the introduction given to the assembly about the keynote speaker, who then goes on to discuss sustainable development goals for Braille. If you would like to hear the entire proceedings, you may visit https://live.braillecast.com/content.php Alternately, se...

We speak this week with Rikki Chaplin, Advocacy Officer with BCA, about Independent Functional Assessments, what they mean to the blind and vision impaired community. Find out how you can have your say, and find out more information. BCA will be holding a Round Table event in November to discuss these.

In this week's New Horizons, we hear from Fiona Woods, director of Blind Citizens Australia and chair of the National Policy Council. Hear about the council, its work and members, and find out how you can become involved.

Graeme Innes speaks with Sarah Bolton, who whilst spending much of her life in Canada has lived in Australia for several years now. They discuss the difference in blindness services as well as attitudes to people who are blind or vision impaired and how they differ between the two countries.

Graeme Innes speaks with David Saxburg and Paul Price from BCA's Brisbane branch. The Brisbane branch took a positive approach to Covid-19, to include the broader Queensland Community for social, online, gatherings.

In this week's episode, we speak with John Simpson, BCA president, and CEO, Emma Bennison about the upcoming Annual General Meeting of Blind Citizens Australia. Find out the time and date for the AGM, who is up for re-election this year and how the election process will be managed.

In this week's episode we hear from Sally Aurisch about the upcoming BCA Connect event. Find out what will be featured, how you can register and more. As well, we hear from Stephen Belbin about the upcoming Aboriginal Blind People's forum, coming up on the 30th of September.

In this week's episode, we speak with Sophie Wild from Guide Dogs Victoria. Sophie joins us to discuss a new community hub which has been developed to promote peer support and information sharing foir blind and vision impaired people across Australia.

This week we hear from Dale Cleaver, CEO of Guide Dogs NSW/ACT, about an interesting role currently being advertised by Guide Dogs Australia.

In this week's extended episode of New Horizons, Graeme Innes joins us to ... well, turn the tables on Vaughn Bennison, our regular New Horizons producer and presenter. Vaughn has produced New Horizons now for nearly five years, and at the request of some of our regular listeners, Graeme hijacks the programme to find out a bit about Vaughn's life.

We speak with Dianna Kube and Rikki Chaplin from Blind Citizens Australia about an upcoming discussion to inform BCA's work on addressing the needs of members living in "thin market" areas. Find out how you can attend to make your views known, and precisely what is a "Thin Market".

In this episode we speak with Graeme Innes and Susan Thompson about a successful move to get acess for blind and vision impaired Sydney travelers, to the AIRA service. They discuss how this can take the stress out of train travel and how else the service might be used.

In this week's programme we speak with New Horizons regular, and BCA staff-member, Rikki Chaplin. Rikki has been working hard on putting together a response paper to submit to the Royal Commission on the abuse, neglect, violence and exploitation of people with disabilities. Hear about Rikki's paper and the response he hopes to receive from the commission.