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Practice & professional support – resources to support you

In this section, members can access resources offering professional, clinical, employment, legal and patient guidance. Our advice is impartial, employing evidence and best-practice, and we are here to support you, our members through all stages of your career, wherever you work in Australia.

This section is developed by optometrists, for optometrists, ensuring that together we deliver the highest quality of eye care for our community.

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Advanced Practice Recognition

Advanced Practice RecognitionAdvanced Practice Recognition

Audit support

Managing AHPRA, Medicare & private health fund audits

Audit supportAudit support

Career & employment

Contracts, leave & information to guide your career

Career & employmentCareer & employment

Coronavirus (COVID-19) – what optometrists need to know

Coronavirus (COVID-19) – what optometrists need to knowCoronavirus (COVID-19) – what optometrists need to know

Culturally Responsive Practice

Culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) framework for optometrists

Culturally Responsive Practice Culturally Responsive Practice

Early career optometrists

Networks for graduates up to 10 years out

Early career optometristsEarly career optometrists

FAQs

Find answers to your frequently asked questions

FAQsFAQs

Human resources & workplace relations

Human resources & workplace relationsHuman resources & workplace relations

Infection control

Infection controlInfection control

Member Discounts/Rewards

Member Discounts/RewardsMember Discounts/Rewards

Myopia

MyopiaMyopia

Medicare, private billing & health funds

Insights & information on practice billing systems

Medicare, private billing & health fundsMedicare, private billing & health funds

Occupational optometry resources

Occupational optometry resourcesOccupational optometry resources

Optometry Advisors help desk

Help at the tip of your fingers

Optometry Advisors help deskOptometry Advisors help desk

Patient & practice management

Clinical guides, practice notes, privacy & more

Patient & practice managementPatient & practice management

Professional Indemnity & Public Liability Insurance, Risk Management

Insurance, risk, complaints & your PII certificate

Professional Indemnity & Public Liability Insurance, Risk ManagementProfessional Indemnity & Public Liability Insurance, Risk Management

Publications & podcasts

Pharma, CXO, Equipment, podcasts & more

Publications & podcastsPublications & podcasts

Students

Career & registration advice

StudentsStudents

Supporting your mental health

Supporting your mental healthSupporting your mental health

The law & regulations

Legal requirements for health care practitioners

The law & regulationsThe law & regulations

Women in optometry

Useful guidance & tips

Women in optometryWomen in optometry

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Oral therapeutics update

In late 2025, the Optometry Board of Australia consulted on proposed changes to the Registration Standard: Endorsement for Scheduled Medicines and associated guidelines that would enable endorsed optometrists to prescribe oral medicines for eye conditions, in addition to topical medicines. Optometry Australia through its advocacy, generated a high volume of submissions that are currently being reviewed by the Board to develop its recommendation to Health Ministers.
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Tasmanian Budget focuses on prevention and primary care but eye health missing

The 2026–27 Tasmanian Budget delivers a strong focus on fiscal restraint, preventive health and community-based care, but contains no direct investment in eye health, optometry or blindness prevention. While eye health was not specifically referenced in the Budget Papers, several priorities align closely with Optometry Australia advocacy agenda.
Tasmanian Budget focuses on prevention and primary care but eye health missing View

Acknowledgement of Country

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.