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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Stephanie Convery Inequality reporter

‘Nothing unusual’ about blindness non-profit Vision Australia being led by someone who isn’t blind, chair says

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A petition urging Vision Australia to prioritise the appointment of its first blind CEO and open its recruitment process externally has more than 700 signatures. Photograph: Mark Edward Atkinson/Getty Images/Blend Images

A non-blind person leading Vision Australia is “nothing unusual”, its chair has said, as the organisation faces criticism for seeking a new chief executive through internal expressions of interest only.

Bill Jolley’s comments come in the wake of a petition launched by Vision Australia’s founding chair, the former disability discrimination commissioner Graeme Innes, urging the organisation to appoint its first blind chief executive.

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