One bursary is being offered to early career optometrists to attend the 2024 National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Eye Health Conference (NATSIEHC23), which will be held on nipaluna country (Hobart, Tasmania) from 22-24 May 2024.
Nominations are now open for Optometry Australia’s 2024 H Barry Collin Research Medal, which recognises outstanding contributions to the advancement of knowledge in optics, vision science, or clinical optometry.
Three of Australia’s national eye health professional organisations have joined forces to design and implement models of care to provide valuable and much needed paediatric ophthalmology services.
The optometry community bids farewell to the Hon. Bill Hayden, former federal Labor Leader and governor-general, who passed away, aged 90. Mr Hayden was instrumental in ensuring optometry was included in the original Medibank system, now Medicare.
With International Men’s Day (IMD) just around the corner on Sunday, 19 November this year, Optometry Australia encourages members to take a moment to perform a ‘mental health check-in’.
The Institute for Urban Indigenous Health (IUIH) and The Fred Hollows Foundation are offering a final year optometry student an exciting ‘workforce initiative’ scholarship opportunity.
Judy Nam, Jia Jia Lek and Lily Ho have each been awarded a travel scholarship as part of Optometry Australia’s 2024 Looking Outward on Optometric Knowledge (LOOK) International program.
With a career spanning over 40 years in optometry, Jim Kokkinakis is one of the many voices advocating for the inclusion of oral therapeutics in Australian optometric scope of practice.
Under the Sex Discrimination Act, businesses have a positive duty to eliminate discrimination and sexual harassment in the workplace. The Australian Human Rights Commission has new powers to enforce compliance with the positive duty, which commence on 12 December 2023.
In September, Jingyi Chen attended the National Rural Women’s Coalition’s (NRWC) roundtable on ‘How to achieve gender equality in rural, regional and remote Australia’ on behalf of Optometry Australia to speak about her experiences in this space.
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.
