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Vision Australia

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Vision Australia is a not-for-profit organisation and Australia's largest provider of services for people with blindness and low vision. [1]

49 relations: Alexander Mair, Anthony Callea, Audio description, Australia, Books for the Blind, Bursary, Carols by Candlelight, Chief executive officer, CNIB, Crouch and Wilson, DAISY Digital Talking Book, Deafblindness, Debra Byrne, Denis Walter, Electronic voting, Further education, Guide dog, Hans Roland, Herald Sun, Herbert Taylor (Australian politician), Hi-5 (Australian band), Hugh Jackman, Humphrey B. Bear, Independent living, Jeff Hook, John Farnham, Judith Buckrich, Judith Durham, Lee Kernaghan, Macquarie Sports Radio 1278, Marina Prior, Melbourne, Myer, New South Wales, Nine Network, Non-governmental organization, Olivia Newton-John, Ray Martin (television presenter), Rolf Harris, Royal National Institute of Blind People, Sidney Myer, Silvie Paladino, Tina Arena, Toorak Manor, Melbourne, Ulrich Pfisterer, Victoria (Australia), Vision Australia Radio, Visual impairment, 3AW.

Alexander Mair

Alexander Mair (25 August 18893 August 1969) was an Australian politician and served as the Premier of New South Wales from 5 August 1939 to 16 May 1941.

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Anthony Callea

Anthony Cosmo Callea (born 13 December 1982) is an Australian singer-songwriter and stage actor who rose to prominence after being the runner-up in the 2004 season of Australian Idol.

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Audio description

Audio description, also referred to as a video description, described video, or more precisely called a visual description, is an additional narration track intended primarily for blind and visually impaired consumers of visual media (including television and film, dance, opera, and visual art).

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Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands.

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Books for the Blind

The Books for the Blind Program is an initiative of the United States National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS) which provides audio recordings of books free of charge to people who are blind or visually impaired.

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Bursary

A bursary is a monetary award made by an institution to individuals or groups of people who cannot afford to pay full fees.

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Carols by Candlelight

Carols by Candlelight is an annual Australian Christmas tradition that originated in southeastern Australia in the 19th century and was popularised in Melbourne in 1938.

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Chief executive officer

Chief executive officer (CEO) is the position of the most senior corporate officer, executive, administrator, or other leader in charge of managing an organization especially an independent legal entity such as a company or nonprofit institution.

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CNIB

CNIB (INCA) is a volunteer agency and charitable organization dedicated to assisting Canadians who are blind or living with vision loss, and to provide information about vision health for all Canadians.

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Crouch and Wilson

Crouch and Wilson was an architectural practice based in Melbourne, Australia in the late nineneenth century.

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DAISY Digital Talking Book

DAISY (Digital Accessible Information SYstem) is a technical standard for digital audiobooks, periodicals and computerized text.

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Deafblindness

Deafblindness is the condition of little or no useful sight and little or no useful hearing.

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Debra Byrne

Debra Anne Byrne (born 30 March 1957), formerly billed as Debbie Byrne, is an Australian pop singer, actress and entertainer.

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Denis Walter

Denis Walter OAM, (born 3 January 1955) is an Australian radio presenter, baritone singer, recording artist and media personality who also presented television news for 16 years.

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Electronic voting

Electronic voting (also known as e-voting) refers to voting using electronic means to either aid or take care of the chores of casting and counting votes.

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Further education

Further education (often abbreviated FE) in the United Kingdom and Ireland is education in addition to that received at secondary school, that is distinct from the higher education (HE) offered in universities and other academic institutions.

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Guide dog

Guide dogs (also known as service animals, assistance animals or colloquially as seeing eye dogs), are assistance dogs trained to lead blind and visually impaired people around obstacles.

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Hans Roland

Hans Roland (born 1931) is an Australian author and teacher.

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Herald Sun

The Herald Sun is a morning newspaper based in Melbourne, Australia published by The Herald and Weekly Times, a subsidiary of News Corp Australia, itself a subsidiary of News Corp. The Herald Sun primarily serves Victoria and shares many articles with other News Corporation daily newspapers, especially those from Australia. It is also available for purchase in Tasmania, the Australian Capital Territory and border regions of South Australia and southern New South Wales such as the Riverina and NSW South Coast, and is available digitally through its website and apps. In March 2009, the paper had a daily circulation of 530,000 from Monday to Friday.

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Herbert Taylor (Australian politician)

Herbert Taylor, CMG (11 May 1885 – 24 July 1970) was an Australian political party organiser, accountant, and company director.

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Hi-5 (Australian band)

Hi-5 are an Australian children's musical group formed in 1998, who are associated with the children's television series of the same name.

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Hugh Jackman

Hugh Michael Jackman (born 12 October 1968) is an Australian actor, singer, and producer.

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Humphrey B. Bear

Humphrey B. Bear is an Australian children's television series and its fictional character namesake is an icon of Australian children's television.

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Independent living

Independent living, as seen by its advocates, is a philosophy, a way of looking at society and disability, and a worldwide movement of people with disabilities working for equal opportunities, self-determination, and self-respect.

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Jeff Hook

Geoff Hook OAM (born 27 December 1928 in Hobart, Tasmania), better known as Jeff Hook, is an Australian artist and former editorial cartoonist.

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John Farnham

John Peter Farnham AO (born 1 July 1949) is an Australian rock/soft rock singer.

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Judith Buckrich

Dr Judith Buckrich (born 1950, Budapest, Hungary) is a Melbourne author and past chair of the International PEN Women Writers' Committee.

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Judith Durham

Judith Durham (born Judith Mavis Cock; 3 July 1943) is an Australian singer and musician who became the lead singer for the Australian popular folk music group The Seekers in 1963.

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Lee Kernaghan

Lee Kernaghan OAM (born 15 April 1964) is an Australian country music singer, songwriter, musician, guitarist.

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Macquarie Sports Radio 1278

Macquarie Sports Radio (call sign: 3EE) is a commercial radio station in Melbourne, Australia owned by Macquarie Radio Network.

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Marina Prior

Marina Prior (born 18 October 1963) is an Australian soprano and actress with a career mainly in musical theatre.

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Melbourne

Melbourne is the state capital of Victoria and the second-most populous city in Australia and Oceania.

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Myer

Myer (stylised MYER), is an upmarket Australian department store chain trading in all Australian states and one of Australia's two self-governing territories.

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New South Wales

New South Wales (abbreviated as NSW) is a state on the east coast of:Australia.

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Nine Network

The Nine Network (commonly known as Channel Nine or simply Nine) is a major Australian commercial free-to-air television network, that is a division of Nine Entertainment Co. with headquarters in Willoughby, a suburb located on the North Shore of Sydney, Australia.

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Non-governmental organization

Non-governmental organizations, nongovernmental organizations, or nongovernment organizations, commonly referred to as NGOs, are usually non-profit and sometimes international organizations independent of governments and international governmental organizations (though often funded by governments) that are active in humanitarian, educational, health care, public policy, social, human rights, environmental, and other areas to effect changes according to their objectives.

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Olivia Newton-John

Olivia Newton-John, (born 26 September 1948) is an English-Australian singer, songwriter, actress, entrepreneur, and activist.

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Ray Martin (television presenter)

Ray Martin AM (born, Raymond George Grace, 20 December 1944) is an Australian television journalist and entertainment personality having won the Gold Logie five times along with Graham Kennedy, (although Kennedy won the "Star of the Year Award, the forerunner of the Gold Logie in 1959), he is the most awarded star of television.

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Rolf Harris

Rolf Harris (born 30 March 1930) is an Australian entertainer whose career has encompassed work as a musician, singer-songwriter, composer, comedian, actor, painter and television personality.

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Royal National Institute of Blind People

The Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) is a UK charity offering information, support and advice to almost two million people in the UK with sight loss.

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Sidney Myer

Sidney Myer (born Simcha Myer Baevski (Симха Майер Баевский); 8 February 18785 September 1934) was a Russian-born Jewish-Australian businessman and philanthropist, best known for creating Myer, Australia's largest chain of department stores.

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Silvie Paladino

Silvie Paladino (born 18 August 1971) is an Australian singer.

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Tina Arena

Filippina Lydia Arena (born 1 November 1967), commonly known as Tina Arena, is an Italian-Australian singer-songwriter, musician, musical theatre actress, and record producer.

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Toorak Manor, Melbourne

Toorak Manor, previously called “Graeme”, in Williams Rd Toorak is a house of historical significance.

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Ulrich Pfisterer

Ulrich Pfisterer (born 4 November 1951 in Berlin, Germany) is a former German football player and coach.

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Victoria (Australia)

Victoria (abbreviated as Vic) is a state in south-eastern Australia.

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Vision Australia Radio

Vision Australia Radio is a network of eight radio stations in Victoria and southern New South Wales owned by Vision Australia.

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Visual impairment

Visual impairment, also known as vision impairment or vision loss, is a decreased ability to see to a degree that causes problems not fixable by usual means, such as glasses.

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3AW

3AW is a talkback radio station based in Melbourne.

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Royal Institution for the Blind, Royal Victorian Institute for the Blind.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vision_Australia

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