Optometry Australia has partnered with UNSW to offer 40 members the opportunity to undertake a program that is structured to develop your paediatric optometry practise. Expressions of interest must close 5pm, Sunday 24 July.
Following the success of our Communities of Practise and Education group for glaucoma, Optometry Australia is convening a Group of Practise and Education with a focus on practitioners working in rural and remote regions.
The results of a survey conducted by Optometry Australia in March 2022 has revealed that 64% of the 320 members who responded, had experienced, encountered or witnessed gender bias, discrimination, harassing and/or aggressive behaviour in the workplace. Almost a third of all respondents feared speaking out against this type of behaviour.
With its focus on health, Optometry Australia will appeal to the new Health Minister, Mark Butler, to escalate eye health reform as part of Labor’s overarching health agenda.
With chronic vision disorders affecting 93% of people aged 65 or over, Optometry Australia is calling on the major parties to take vision problems seriously and improve access to optometry care for elderly Australians.
The Federal Government has recently launched a 10-year workforce plan to increase the number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander workers in the health system and improve health and wellbeing outcomes for Indigenous Australians.
Optometry Australia is calling on the Australian Government to urgently invest in saving and improving the eyesight of millions of Australians by making a relatively small $22.6 million investment over five years to start deflecting a looming eye health crisis.
In the spirit of reconciliation Optometry Australia acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respects to their Elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.
