Sam Colley speaks with opening batter Steffan Nero from the Australian Blind Cricket Team, who recently scored a record breaking 309 not out from 140 balls at last week's Inclusion Series in Brisbane vs New Zealand.

Sam Colley speaks with opening batter Steffan Nero from the Australian Blind Cricket Team, who recently scored a record breaking 309 not out from 140 balls at last week's Inclusion Series in Brisbane vs New Zealand.

Let 'Talking Vision' be your national radio reference on blindness and low vision. On this weekly radio program presented by Sam Colley, you’ll hear discussions of issues relating to blindness and low vision, stories of inspiration and achievement from people living with vision loss, find out how you can access services from Vision Australia and how you can get involved in assisting Vision Australia to assist people who are blind or have low vision to life the life they choose. We welcome your comments and suggestions: talkingvision@visionaustralia.org

Let 'Talking Vision' be your national radio reference on blindness and low vision. On this weekly radio program presented by Sam Colley, you&rsquo;ll hear discussions of issues relating to blindness and low vision, stories of inspiration and achievement from people living with vision loss, find out how you can access services from Vision Australia and how you can get involved in assisting Vision Australia to assist people who are blind or have low vision to life the life they choose. We welcome your comments and suggestions: <a href="mailto:talkingvision@visionaustralia.org">talkingvision@visionaustralia.org</a>

Let \'Talking Vision\' be your national radio reference on blindness and low vision.

Talking Vision - Vision Australia Radio

Sam Colley with Steffan Nero - Australian Blind Cricket Team

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Stella Glorie speaks with Cassandra Chiu and Andrew Chew, chair and board member of K9 Assistance based in Singapore, an organisation which launched in 2020 to provide assistance dogs for people with disabilities throughout Singapore.

Both Cassandra and Andrew are blind and Cassandra is one of the first Seeing Eye Dog users in Singapore, and they recently visited Vision Australia to gain knowledge and expertise from the Seeing Eye Dogs branch of Vision Australia to bring back to K9.

Then later in the program this week Bethany Cody catches up with Brittnee Watson. Both Bethany and Brittnee have tattoos and through their shared lived experience with low vision, they seek to bust the misconceptions and discrimination faced by people from the blind and low vision community who are interested in getting tattoos.

Stella Glorie speaks with Cassandra Chiu and Andrew Chew, chair and board member of K9 Assistance based in Singapore, an organisation which launched in 2020 to provide assistance dogs for people with disabilities throughout Singapore.
Both Cassandra and Andrew are blind and Cassandra is one of the first Seeing Eye Dog users in Singapore, and they recently visited Vision Australia to gain knowledge and expertise from the Seeing Eye Dogs branch of Vision Australia to bring back to K9.
Then later in the program this week Bethany Cody catches up with Brittnee Watson. Both Bethany and Brittnee have tattoos and through their shared lived experience with low vision, they seek to bust the misconceptions and discrimination faced by people from the blind and low vision community who are interested in getting tattoos.

Talking Vision 637 Week Beginning 8th of August 2022

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Vision Australia manager of commercial services Michael Linke joins the show this week to chat about the new Vision Store website, which recently launched with a new range of products and videos.

Sam also speaks with Vision 2020 policy and advocacy manager Carly Iles about the organisation's advocacy plans regarding the new federal government, and then finally Sam catches up with Helen Velissaris to chat about the latest issue of For Your Information, otherwise known as FYI.

Vision Australia manager of commercial services Michael Linke joins the show this week to chat about the new Vision Store website, which recently launched with a new range of products and videos.
Sam also speaks with Vision 2020 policy and advocacy manager Carly Iles about the organisation's advocacy plans regarding the new federal government, and then finally Sam catches up with Helen Velissaris to chat about the latest issue of For Your Information, otherwise known as FYI.

Talking Vision 636 Week Beginning 1st of August 2022

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This week on Talking Vision you’ll hear from Brenda, a disability advocate, volunteer and keen lawn bowler who lost her vision late in life. Brenda catches up with Matthew Layton as part of the Let’s talk about vision loss series, which explores the lives and achievements of people who have experienced vision loss.

Policy and advocacy team leader Jane Britt from Blind Citizens Australia also joins the show to speak about her work advocating for people who are blind or have low vision.

It was this advocacy work which saw Jane win a Vision Australia youth award in 2020. She joins Stella to talk about the awards, which are now open for nominations until the 12th of August.

Then finally on the show this week, Sam catches up for a super quick chat with retinitis pigmentosa advocate and Big Brother superfan Bethany Cody. We get her thoughts and share in the exciting news about winner of Big Brother Reggie Sorensen who, like Bethany, has lived experience with RP.

This week on Talking Vision you’ll hear from Brenda, a disability advocate, volunteer and keen lawn bowler who lost her vision late in life. Brenda catches up with Matthew Layton as part of the Let’s talk about vision loss series, which explores the lives and achievements of people who have experienced vision loss.
Policy and advocacy team leader Jane Britt from Blind Citizens Australia also joins the show to speak about her work advocating for people who are blind or have low vision.
It was this advocacy work which saw Jane win a Vision Australia youth award in 2020. She joins Stella to talk about the awards, which are now open for nominations until the 12th of August.
Then finally on the show this week, Sam catches up for a super quick chat with retinitis pigmentosa advocate and Big Brother superfan Bethany Cody. We get her thoughts and share in the exciting news about winner of Big Brother Reggie Sorensen who, like Bethany, has lived experience with RP.

Talking Vision 635 Week Beginning 25th of July 2022

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Sam Colley with Steffan Nero - Australian Blind Cricket Team

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