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First of its Kind Summit Seeks to Reimagine Rural and Regional Hearing Healthcare...

Hearing Service Program Only One Piece of the Puzzle as Audiology Australia Backs Calls for Holistic Hearing Care...

First of its Kind Summit Seeks to Reimagine Rural and Regional Hearing Healthcare...

Read AudA's media statement backing calls for the Australian Government to embed the rights of older people in a reformed Aged Care Act...

Coming into effect from 1 January 2022, the NCS describes, for the first time, the minimum attributes, skills, and knowledge needed for entry and ongoing clinical practice of audiology in Australia.

Audiology Australia has developed a client guidance on self-fitting hearing devices to assist health consumers, members of the public and hearing clients with understanding what self-fitting hearing devices are and some of the challenges that may be associated with purchasing, fitting and adjusting a self-fitting hearing device.

From 22 June 2022, manufacturers, importers, wholesalers and retailers of button batteries or consumer goods that contain button batteries supplied to Australia must comply with the applicable Australian mandatory safety and information standards.

The Joint Standing Committee on the NDIS has been conducting an inquiry into the NDIS workforce. As part of the inquiry, a National Workforce Plan has been released which sets out the Australian Government’s vision to build a responsive and capable workforce to support NDIS participants.

Audiology Australia is developing guidelines for hearing health care practitioners and hearing services providers to support the safe and effective delivery of hearing services by telehealth to people wherever they live.