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Dialogue: 0,0:00:06.07,0:00:08.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The voice is calm and confident.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:10.81,0:00:14.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But what Triple J listeners across the country don't know
Dialogue: 0,0:00:14.82,0:00:19.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Is that this newsreader can't see one word of the script she's delivering.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:19.46,0:00:26.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Twenty four year old Nas Campanella is blind.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:26.46,0:00:28.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not only that, she can't read Braille.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:28.100,0:00:35.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So Nas Campanella presents 3 minute news bulletins on the hour by listening to an audio translation of copy
Dialogue: 0,0:00:35.91,0:00:37.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,through her headphones
Dialogue: 0,0:00:37.92,0:00:40.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Screen reader] The New South Wales policeman who blew the whistle..
Dialogue: 0,0:00:40.80,0:00:42.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then repeating what she hears..
Dialogue: 0,0:00:42.76,0:00:47.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Senior New South Wales policeman who blew the whistle on allegations of a coverup of
Dialogue: 0,0:00:47.55,0:00:54.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"child sexual abuse has admitted he lied to colleagues because he was suspicious of their motives."
Dialogue: 0,0:00:54.52,0:00:57.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am reading about a second or two behind.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:57.16,0:01:03.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's hard because the speech program has an American accent
Dialogue: 0,0:01:03.30,0:01:07.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it's a sort of computerised voice
Dialogue: 0,0:01:07.16,0:01:09.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so there's that to contend with
Dialogue: 0,0:01:09.46,0:01:13.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it pronounces things, sort of incorrectly most of the time.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:13.76,0:01:17.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She doesn't just present the bulletins but produces them as well.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:17.53,0:01:21.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Operating the panel with the help of strategically placed velcro dots
Dialogue: 0,0:01:21.60,0:01:25.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,while listening to four different streams of audio.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:25.16,0:01:29.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the headphones I can hear myself.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:29.60,0:01:33.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I can hear the speech program telling me what to say.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:33.100,0:01:43.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I can hear the audio grab that I have to play on air.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:43.24,0:01:51.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then on top of that I can hear a clock telling me how much time I've got left to go
Dialogue: 0,0:01:51.63,0:01:55.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's fine usually during bulletin but at the end of the day
Dialogue: 0,0:01:55.44,0:01:58.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,after reading five or six bulletins in a row
Dialogue: 0,0:01:58.55,0:02:04.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my ears are a bit kind of sore and it's all a bit much, so.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:04.46,0:02:06.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What about you're brain?
Dialogue: 0,0:02:06.63,0:02:08.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No the brain learns to deal with it.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:08.88,0:02:11.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well I think it's quite remarkable
Dialogue: 0,0:02:11.05,0:02:14.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Heather Forbes is responsible for hiring and training
Dialogue: 0,0:02:14.36,0:02:16.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,ABC cadet journalists.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:16.60,0:02:21.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Her brain can process that information in a nanosecond
Dialogue: 0,0:02:21.32,0:02:25.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and if a sighted person tries to do it
Dialogue: 0,0:02:25.36,0:02:29.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you just cant. I don't know how she does it because I've tried it myself
Dialogue: 0,0:02:29.38,0:02:31.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I just couldn't do it.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:31.84,0:02:35.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Nas Campanella lost her sight at 6 months of age
Dialogue: 0,0:02:35.00,0:02:39.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when blood vessels burst at the back of her eyes, damaging the retinas.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:39.05,0:02:43.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was due to a genetic condition that also affected her younger brother
Dialogue: 0,0:02:43.52,0:02:46.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ben, but his sight was salvaged thanks to laser surgery
Dialogue: 0,0:02:46.76,0:02:49.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which wasn't available to Nas.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:49.63,0:02:51.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think it's been a little bit traumatic
Dialogue: 0,0:02:51.38,0:02:53.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for Mum and Dad, especially early on because,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:53.38,0:02:56.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I guess they never really met someone with a vision impairment.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:56.88,0:03:01.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Had no idea about what I'd be capable of doing.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:01.32,0:03:07.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or what services were out there in order to get me through life
Dialogue: 0,0:03:07.84,0:03:11.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but they've always been really supportive. They've never wrapped me up in cotton wool.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:11.08,0:03:15.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've always had to do everything like, you know my brother or my cousins
Dialogue: 0,0:03:15.05,0:03:19.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Work experience in community radio sparked a passion for broadcasting.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:19.52,0:03:23.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Nas Campanella went on to graduate with a journalism degree
Dialogue: 0,0:03:23.38,0:03:26.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from the University of Technology in Sydney.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:26.60,0:03:31.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was difficult to find a job, any job, at all.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:31.68,0:03:37.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because you know, I looked good on paper in terms of all the voluntary experience I had in the industry
Dialogue: 0,0:03:37.98,0:03:42.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and my resume looked great, the samples of work I had looked great.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:42.85,0:03:47.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it wasn't until I got to the interview stage when they found out I had a vision impairment
Dialogue: 0,0:03:47.61,0:03:52.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it was like, all of a sudden, they just changed their attitude.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:52.55,0:03:55.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was a big no basically.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:55.92,0:03:57.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it was pretty heartbreaking.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:57.96,0:04:03.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In 2011 her luck changed and she beat a field of 700 applicants to win one of
Dialogue: 0,0:04:03.47,0:04:07.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,ten cadetships on offer at the ABC.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:07.16,0:04:12.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She had determination and she doesn't take no for an answer.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:12.30,0:04:16.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and she's got curiosity
Dialogue: 0,0:04:16.88,0:04:20.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She can write very well, she's got a beautiful voice
Dialogue: 0,0:04:20.08,0:04:22.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,beautiful brodcast voice
Dialogue: 0,0:04:22.68,0:04:31.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and in the end I said to myself "If I was her and I didn't have sight and I wanted to be
Dialogue: 0,0:04:31.72,0:04:38.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a journalist I'd want the cadetship." So there was absolutely no reason to not give her the cadetship.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:38.78,0:04:44.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How did you feel when you got the phone call to tell you had been given a cadetship?
Dialogue: 0,0:04:44.08,0:04:49.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There were tears. Pretty happy.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:49.63,0:04:54.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They were willing to take a chance I guess when no one else was
Dialogue: 0,0:04:54.20,0:05:00.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they've done everything they possibly could to make it
Dialogue: 0,0:05:00.21,0:05:06.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,work and I couldn't have asked for anything more
Dialogue: 0,0:05:06.92,0:05:11.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,During her cadetship, Nas Campanella reported in the field,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:11.38,0:05:17.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,became proficient at court reporting and spent a year, like all ABC cadets, working in a regional
Dialogue: 0,0:05:17.04,0:05:20.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,newsroom, Bega, New South Wales.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:20.77,0:05:24.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Nas Campanella is the first ABC cadet journalist who is blind
Dialogue: 0,0:05:24.88,0:05:28.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and she's breaking new ground in the way she delivers the news.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:28.93,0:05:33.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I just think it's fantastic and I think, you know, she's a great
Dialogue: 0,0:05:33.30,0:05:39.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,role model for anyone else out there who wants to be a journalist and
Dialogue: 0,0:05:39.00,0:05:43.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,hasn't got their sight.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:43.48,0:05:49.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But Nas Campanella isn't trying to a role model, just the best journalist she can be.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:49.60,0:05:55.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I just like it. At the end of the day I go home and I feel good about my job and I look forward to it the next day.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:56.37,0:06:02.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's a dream come true really