4 years ago
MORE SUPPORT FOR VICTORIANS WITH SIGHT LOSS
BILL SHORTEN MP
A Shorten Labor Government will invest $2 million to deliver Guide Dogs Victoria a new world-class campus at Kew to help Victorians with sight loss.
For people who live with sight loss, a guide dog is just one of the ways they can receive assistance in their day to day lives.
Labor’s $2 million investment will deliver the world’s first fully accessible sensory campus, bringing together paws and people to promote each other’s abilities.
The sensory campus will use lighting, scent, human enabled technology, braille and a range of tactile features to create an inclusive and inspiring learning environment for people with low vision or blindness, ensuring vision loss will not limit independence.
Whilst many families have a beloved companion, for people who live with sight loss, guide dogs assist with navigation, mobility and safety- playing a critical role in their ability to live independently.
Last year Guide Dogs Victoria increased their support to the community by 23 per cent, assisting many new and existing clients to transition into the National Disability Insurance Scheme.
Labor’s investment in Guide Dogs Victoria will provide greater support from the Commonwealth and is long overdue recognition of the important place guide dogs have in our community.
A Shorten Labor Government is proud to support this new campus and invest in a world-leading training centre of excellence, residential accommodation for clients to develop independent living skills, dog training precinct, low vision clinic and a community education hub.
When there are nearly 15,000 Victorians who are diagnosed with some form of irreversible vision loss every year, we can do more.
And Labor will do more.
Our $2 million investment to this new sensory campus will help Guide Dogs Victoria deliver services to those who need it most supporting more people in our community to live independently.
This support from Labor will also deliver a commercial hub with four new business enterprises including a veterinary hospital, teaching facility, dog day care centre and an on-site café.
With Labor’s support for Guide Dogs Victoria to establish new businesses, the organisation will be able to grow its own revenue stream, allowing Guide Dogs Victoria to thrive as an independent organisation with a secure financial base.
Labor can invest in a fair go for all Australians because we’ve made the tough budget decisions to make multinationals pay their fair share of tax, close tax loopholes used by the top end of town, and we won’t give the big banks a tax cut.
For people who live with sight loss, a guide dog is just one of the ways they can receive assistance in their day to day lives.
Labor’s $2 million investment will deliver the world’s first fully accessible sensory campus, bringing together paws and people to promote each other’s abilities.
The sensory campus will use lighting, scent, human enabled technology, braille and a range of tactile features to create an inclusive and inspiring learning environment for people with low vision or blindness, ensuring vision loss will not limit independence.
Whilst many families have a beloved companion, for people who live with sight loss, guide dogs assist with navigation, mobility and safety- playing a critical role in their ability to live independently.
Last year Guide Dogs Victoria increased their support to the community by 23 per cent, assisting many new and existing clients to transition into the National Disability Insurance Scheme.
Labor’s investment in Guide Dogs Victoria will provide greater support from the Commonwealth and is long overdue recognition of the important place guide dogs have in our community.
A Shorten Labor Government is proud to support this new campus and invest in a world-leading training centre of excellence, residential accommodation for clients to develop independent living skills, dog training precinct, low vision clinic and a community education hub.
When there are nearly 15,000 Victorians who are diagnosed with some form of irreversible vision loss every year, we can do more.
And Labor will do more.
Our $2 million investment to this new sensory campus will help Guide Dogs Victoria deliver services to those who need it most supporting more people in our community to live independently.
This support from Labor will also deliver a commercial hub with four new business enterprises including a veterinary hospital, teaching facility, dog day care centre and an on-site café.
With Labor’s support for Guide Dogs Victoria to establish new businesses, the organisation will be able to grow its own revenue stream, allowing Guide Dogs Victoria to thrive as an independent organisation with a secure financial base.
Labor can invest in a fair go for all Australians because we’ve made the tough budget decisions to make multinationals pay their fair share of tax, close tax loopholes used by the top end of town, and we won’t give the big banks a tax cut.