Business Archives - Hearing Practitioner Australia

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Audiology networks

Specsavers named one of the world’s best workplaces

by Helen Carter

November 19, 2025

Specsavers has been ranked in the World’s Best Workplaces list for the second year in a row, placing 12th. Moving...

Business

Free Beyond Blue coaching program supports mental health of small business owners

by Staff Writer

September 9, 2025

GREG JENNINGS discusses Beyond Blue’s NewAccess for Small Business Owners service, a free mental health coaching program to help small...

While the increase will have a positive long-term benefit to retirement savings, workers should check if their employer is making the extra contribution, or whether it comes out of their total remuneration package. Image: Shahid/stock.adobe.com.

Business

CPA welcomes Super Guarantee increase but says it could mean less take home pay

by Helen Carter

June 27, 2025

Australia’s largest accounting body, CPA Australia, is urging workers to check how the upcoming increase to the Superannuation Guarantee will...

Attendance was up 20% at this year's HBA seminar compared with last year's. Image: Prime Creative Media.

Business

Record attendance at Hearing Business Alliance 2025 Seminar in Melbourne

by Helen Carter

March 4, 2025

Hearing Business Alliance's 2025 Seminar in Melbourne was the organisation’s largest event ever, achieving a record attendance of 184 delegates...

From left, top row, a news timeline, Audiology Australia's Leanne Emerson and Dr Barbra Timmer and award recipients. Bottom from left, ACAud and HAASA merge, 50th anniversary celebrations for University of Melbourne audiology alumni, and direct audiologist to ENT referral proposed.

Features

What 2024 had in store – the year in review

by Helen Carter

December 20, 2024

It’s been a busy year in the hearing health sector since Hearing Practitioner Australia launched in April 2024. Hot topics...

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Business

Changes to the NDIS: What hearing practitioners need to know

by Staff Writer

November 5, 2024

KATY HEWITT, team leader from Allied Admin Partners, helps allied health practitioners and NDIS providers streamline their administrative tasks so they...

From left, Independent Audiologists Australia executive officer Ms Julie Watts with two of the speakers, Sunshine Coast audiologist Dr Dunay Schmulian and Brisbane lawyer and ethicist Professor Melinda Edwards at the IAA conference Audiology for Life! Image: Prime Creative Media.

Conferences

Audiology for Life! seminar a hit for Independent Audiologists Australia

by Helen Carter

October 15, 2024

Fifty audiologists from around Australia and New Zealand attended Independent Audiologist Australia’s first in-person event post-COVID in Melbourne. The Audiology...

Hearing Careers

New Hearing Professional Conduct and Complaints Body launches

by Helen Carter

October 1, 2024

A new independent organisation to promote ethical hearing service practice and handle complaints against audiologists and audiometrists is in force...

The Kirrae and KOKO Dance Troupe, an Indigenous Australian group, performed a Welcome to Country and opened the Victorian Diagnostic Audiology Group (VDAG) meeting in Warrnambool. Image: VDAG.

Hearing Careers

Victorian Diagnostic Audiology Group meet in Warrnambool

by Helen Carter

September 30, 2024

The Victorian Diagnostic Audiology Group (VDAG) met in Warrnambool, country Victoria recently to discuss challenges and innovations in audiology, especially...