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Abstract
This paper first presents a snapshot of the impact of vision loss in Australia. It then reviews the demographic changes in our community and shows how these changes also affect blindness rates around the world. It finally discusses the exciting work being done by Vision 2020, the global initiative to eliminate avoidable blindness by the year 2020 (www.vision2020.org).