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27 Jul |
CBA to become our most disability-friendly bank, unless you’re blindWhile Blind Citizens Australia congratulates the Commonwealth Bank of Australia on making its facilities more accessible for people with disability, the bank still has 75,000 devices in retail outlets that are not accessible to people who are blind or vision impaired. |
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06 Jul |
Call to raise vital funds for medical eye researchEvery year in Australia, more than 1,600 children are diagnosed with significant vision impairment – an average of four children a day whose lives will change forever. |
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24 May |
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22 May |
Caring Australians lose sight of their own eye healthNew research, commissioned by Macular Disease Foundation Australia and released in time with Macular Degeneration Awareness Week, reveals people aged 50 to 64 are placing their vision at risk and could be jeopardising their ability to care for others. |
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26 Apr |
Guide Dogs taking the lead to improve accommodation access for vision impairedTo mark International Guide Dog Day, Guide Dogs NSW/ACT has launched an education campaign to improve guide dog access rights. |
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07 Apr |
Australian government announces new television audio description working groupThe Australian Government has set up a working group to expand audio description services in a move welcomed by the blindness and low vision sector. |
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06 Apr |
Actioning Towards 2020 strategic action planning sessionsVision 2020 Australia is hosting its facilitated event, Actioning Towards 2020, in Melbourne on Thursday 22 June 2017. |
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04 Apr |
Every child should have an eye exam, but millions don’t have access to the glasses they needA new global campaign is helping to ensure that every child, everywhere, has access to the eye care they need. |
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21 Mar |
Disability groups stand together against transport cutsNational and state disability groups unite to campaign against proposed cuts to the Mobility Allowance for people with disability. |
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12 Mar |
New campaign aims to unearth 150,000 Aussies unknowingly living with sight-stealing diseaseDespite being the world’s leading cause of irreversible blindness, only half of Aussies know about glaucoma. |
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