Will Audiology become a Registered Profession?
State and Territory Health Ministers have agreed to consider options for regulating the audiology profession in the future, including regulation under the National Registration and Accreditation Scheme. Audiology is currently a self-regulating profession. Occupational therapists, optometrists, osteopaths, pharmacists, physiotherapists and podiatrists are among the many who are regulated by a Government-controlled practitioner regulatory body. Yet, […]
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Why are we still talking about aged ‘care’?
The new Aged Care Act, which will come into effect later this year, states that one of its objectives is to assist individuals accessing funded aged care services to live active, self-determined, and meaningful lives. But how are we going to achieve this, while we still medicalise age-related disability and persist in defining support for […]
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First Nations Roundtable – official communique.
Deafness Forum Australia hosted a roundtable meeting with a select group of influential stakeholders with a shared aim of helping to address the ear care and hearing health disparities in First Nations communities. The Roundtable, in March 2024 in Canberra, was facilitated by Prof Kelvin Kong AM, an eminent ear, nose and throat surgeon and […]
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Amplifying the global issue of hearing loss.
Hearing loss, which currently affects 20% of the global population, has risen from the 11th leading cause of years lived with disability in 2010 to currently being the third leading cause. A complex web of determining factors impacts hearing at different stages of life, including genetic characteristics, health conditions, living and working environment, and age-related […]
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Changes to the Deafness Forum Constitution.
The Deafness Forum board formed a working group in March 2023 to look into modernising the organisation’s Constitution in line with the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission model. These proposed changes will be presented to the Members for a vote at a meeting on 1 May 2024. The changes are not designed to alter the […]
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The battle to save the NDIS has begun.
The spiralling costs of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) threaten its sustainability. Implementing changes through a proposed Bill (law) is crucial to ensure its future. The revised NDIS, or NDIS 2.0 as it is sometimes called, aims to control cost growth, standardise funding amounts, and specify eligibility for lifelong assistance. Key changes under the […]
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