Media Releases

With an election imminent, Optometry Australia has launched its election campaign by calling for all sides of government to support its vision for a sustainable and effective eye care system accessible to all Australians.

Everyone’s glued to their screens nowadays – phones, computers, iPads, laptops – but none more than our children who are being brought up in the digital age.

A relatively modest but strategically-directed Federal Government investment will result in better vision and eye health for Australians, said the CEO of Optometry Australia Lyn Brodie today.

Australian kids are being urged to sit their first exam before the holidays are over to ensure they start school on equal footing.

Optometry Australia, the peak professional body for optometrists, is rallying the optometry and eye health sector to put their support behind the year 2020 to declare it the Year of Good Vision for Life.

Australia’s peak professional body for optometrists today announced that Darrell Baker has been appointed President and Kylie Harris, Deputy President of Optometry Australia.

The 20-year vision for the future of optometry has been unveiled by Optometry Australia.

Optometry Australia has announced that Kerryn Hart has been appointed Clinical Editor of Pharma, Australia’s leading magazine in therapeutic optometry research and application.

Australian women research pioneers in optometry, who have had published papers in Clinical and Experimental Optometry have been celebrated in a special virtual issue of this leading peer-reviewed journal.

Medicare data released for the 2017-18 financial year shows that children’s optometric consultations have increased steadily over the last four years.