Industry profiles Archives - Hearing Practitioner Australia

Earbus co-founder, nurse audiometrist Dee Parker checking a child's ears. Image: Earbus.

Otitis media (middle ear infection)

Otitis media: Breaking down the barriers

February 10, 2026

For otitis media in Australia, there’s an abundance of research and prevention activities, education, and management and treatment options. While...

Guests clapping in Auslan at Expression Australia's golden anniversary celebration in Melbourne. Image: Expression Audiology.

Audiology networks

Fifty years of changing lives: Expression Audiology and the H.E.A.R Service

by Helen Carter

February 9, 2026

Expression Audiology celebrated its 50th anniversary with a commemorative event in Melbourne. Guests heard that the teachings of its predecessor,...

National Capital Private Hospital in Canberra will be sold to Ramsay Health. Image: Healthscope.

Workforce

New not for profit organisation to operate 31 Healthscope hospitals

by Helen Carter

February 9, 2026

A new not-for-profit organisation will be created to operate 31 Healthscope hospitals, and another five will be sold to existing...

Cochlear implant pioneers, from left, Professor Graeme Clark AC from Australia, Dr Ingeborg Hochmair and Professor Erwin Hochmair from Austria at the QEPrize announcement in London. Image: Jason Alden/QEPrize.

Cochlear implants

Professor Graeme Clark and other cochlear implant pioneers awarded QEPrize

by Helen Carter

February 4, 2026

Australian cochlear implant pioneer and surgeon/scientist, Professor Graeme Clark AC, has shared in the 2026 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering....

An extra 5,000 surgeries will be performed at Northern Beaches Hospital each year through the Northern Beaches Hospital High Volume Planned Surgery Centre. Image: NSLHD.

Hearing Careers

New Northern Beaches planned surgery centre to slash ENT waiting lists in NSW

by Helen Carter

January 29, 2026

Waiting lists for ear, nose and throat (ENT) surgery in NSW will be reduced when the NSW Government establishes the...

The survey informs the 2026 Occupation Shortage List. Image: Dusko/stock.adobe.com.

Workforce

Call for sector to complete Jobs and Skills Australia workforce shortage survey 2026

by Helen Carter

January 25, 2026

The Australasian College of Audiometry (AuCA) is urging organisations and people in the hearing care sector to complete Jobs and...

ATSU Australian alumni, current students and staff at an Independent Audiologists Australia conference in Queensland, (L-R) Dr Heidi Modrovich, Dr Signe Steers, Melanie Gibson (ATSU), Rachel Gibson, Nicole Eglinton and Colleen Campbell. Image: Independent Audiologists Australia.

University and training

More Australians are becoming a Doctor of Audiology through A.T. Still University

by Helen Carter

January 12, 2026

The online Post-Professional Doctor of Audiology Program from America’s A.T. Still University is gaining momentum with audiologists from Australia and...