Talking Vision is Vision Australia's national radio program on blindness and low vision.
In the program for the week of July 28, we talk about disability rights. Just a few weeks beyond the era of a full-time National Disability Discrimination Commissioner, it is timely to look at a number of aspects of the current Australian Scene. The former Disability Discrimination Commissioner and the National Policy Officer with Blind Citizens Australia, have an extended conversation with Stephen Jolley covering issues including:
Keep in touch with the program through Twitter by following talkingvision1.
In the program for the week of July 28, we talk about disability rights. Just a few weeks beyond the era of a full-time National Disability Discrimination Commissioner, it is timely to look at a number of aspects of the current Australian Scene. The former Disability Discrimination Commissioner and the National Policy Officer with Blind Citizens Australia, have an extended conversation with Stephen Jolley covering issues including:
- How effective has the Disability Discrimination Act been?
- What is the significance of the Government’s move away from appointing a person with the lived experience of disability to the full-time role as Disability Discrimination Commissioner?
- How can the high unemployment of people with a disability be eliminated?
- Graeme Innes AM, former Disability Discrimination Commissioner with the Human Rights Commission;
- Lauren Henley, National Policy Officer with Blind Citizens Australia.
Keep in touch with the program through Twitter by following talkingvision1.