That’s a wrap for Tasmania! It was great visiting communities across Palawa country and holding our free clinics raising awareness of scams, cybercrime and identity theft.
What a busy year for community engagement! Between the IDCARE team at HQ and our roving Clinician Rob Blackmore we have visited 30 regions, conducting almost 90 separate clinics across Australian communities.
Thanks for having us Murtoa! We received a lot of questions from the community about scams, cybercrime and identity theft impacting the region. We chatted about the steps the community can take to stay safe online, as well as what you can do if you are impacted by a data breach.
Our CROC team at IDCARE embarked on a journey to the tip of Queensland and back.
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IDCARE has access to the Department of Home Affairs Free Interpreting Service, delivered by the Translating and Interpreting Service (TIS National). Access to the Free Interpreting Service is provided to assist you to communicate with non-English speaking people who hold a Medicare card. Please note that the service does not extend to New Zealand citizens or residents who do not hold an Australian Medicare card, or to tourists, overseas students or people on temporary work visas.
New Zealand Relay provides services to help Deaf, hearing impaired, speech impaired, Deafblind and standard phone users communicate with their peers.
A TTY user connects to New Zealand Relay via a toll-free number and types their conversation to a Relay Assistant (RA) who then reads out the typed message to a standard phone user (hearing person).
The RA relays the hearing person's spoken words by typing them back to the Textphone (TTY) User.
The National Relay Service (NRS) is an Australian government initiative that allows people who are deaf, hard of hearing and/or have a speech impairment to make and receive phone calls.
The NRS is available 24 hours a day, every day and relays more than a million calls each year throughout Australia.