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ABC News bulletin to mark National Week of Deaf People

An Auslan interpreter will feature in Thursday's 6pm bulletin on ABC News.

On Thursday the 6:00pm bulletin on ABC News channel will be interpreted live in Auslan to mark National Week of Deaf People.

An Auslan interpreter will be visible through a picture-in-picture display and captioned for people who are deaf or hard of hearing and do not use Auslan. It will also be made available on iview for later viewing.

Vicdeaf Chief Executive Officer, Christine Mathieson, said: “Vicdeaf strives to ensure that Australian society is more aware of Deaf identity and pride, and is more inclusive of Deaf people. We applaud the ABC in showing initiative to partner with us and provide Australians the opportunity to watch the news in Auslan. This forms part of Vicdeaf’s strategic goal of acknowledging and celebrating Auslan in Australian society and to partner with innovative, like-minded organisations to increase impact”.

ABC News Director Gaven Morris said: “ABC News is very pleased to be part of this initiative to raise awareness of the National Week of Deaf People.”

Networks are still not compelled to caption multichannels, as required for primary channels between 6am and midnight.

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  1. As a deaf person who uses sign language as my primary mode of communication, I think this is fantastic. I was in London two weeks ago and they had a sign language interpreter for BBC’s news bulletin every night.

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