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Hearing Services Program extends to provide free hearing aids to low income and unemployed Australians

by Helen Carter

The HSP expansion will be funded by Hearing Australia’s commercial operations and will provide free hearing assessments, hearing aids and support to at risk individuals ineligible for Australian Government-funded hearing services through the HSP. Image: Engima/stock.adobe.com.

Hearing Services Program

In breaking news and a landmark move for thousands of Australians with hearing loss, the Australian Government-funded Hearing Services Program (HSP) will extend to low income and unemployed Australians, providing them with free hearing aids. Launching on 1 July 2025,...

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Students at an Auslan beginners class run by Deaf Connect which says there are only 700 accredited Auslan interpreters in Australia. Image: Deaf Connect.

Auslan

DeafConnect calls on Government to address shortage of Auslan interpreters

Audiology Australia is also supporting a recommendation from the Hearing Health Sector Alliance to expand the Hearing Services Program to low-income and unemployed Australians. Image: TEERAPONG/stock.adobe.com.

Federal Government

Audiology Australia calls for policy changes to improve access to hearing care services

Top, from left, Dr Emma Laird, Ms Sophie Carson and Mr Shilp Patel. Bottom, from left, Ms Hannah McPierzie, Ms Jaselle Muscat and Ms Rheannon Santamaria.

Latest News

People on the Move – February/March 2025 edition

Dr Al-Rahim Habib says the goal of the project is to use AI to enhance ear health care in underserved regions. Image: Al-Rahim Habib.

Features

Artificial intelligence to detect ear disease in Indigenous children – Dr Al-Rahim Habib

Policy & Regulation

Hearing Services Program extends to provide free hearing aids to low income and unemployed Australians

by Helen Carter

The HSP expansion will be funded by Hearing Australia’s commercial operations and will provide free hearing assessments, hearing aids and support to at risk individuals ineligible for Australian Government-funded hearing services through the HSP. Image: Engima/stock.adobe.com.

Hearing Services Program

In breaking news and a landmark move for thousands of Australians with hearing loss, the Australian Government-funded Hearing Services Program (HSP) will extend to low income and unemployed Australians, providing them with free hearing aids. Launching on 1 July 2025,...

Read more

Audiology Australia is also supporting a recommendation from the Hearing Health Sector Alliance to expand the Hearing Services Program to low-income and unemployed Australians. Image: TEERAPONG/stock.adobe.com.

Federal Government

Audiology Australia calls for policy changes to improve access to hearing care services

Mary-Anne Thomas, Victorian Minister for Health, tours one of the two new theatres with Dr Peter Bird, Eastern Health Divisional Director General Surgery. Image: Mary-Anne Thomas.

Surgery and other implants

Better Access for Vic Kids grant to cut Eastern Health paediatric ENT wait lists

Australian health funds review their premiums annually but mid and top level extras premiums for hearing aids with GMHBA will not go up. Image: LuneVA/peopleimages.com/stock.adobe.com.

Hearing aids

GMHBA freezes increases to base premiums for extras including hearing aids

The conference, at the Adelaide Convention Centre, will be the nation’s largest hearing health event of the year, with more than 100 speakers including leading international and national experts. Image: jovannig/stock.adobe.com.

Conferences

Sharing knowledge in Adelaide: Audiology Australia 2025 Conference preview

Company updates and acquisitions

Audeara Buds, pictured left at their launch, will be the first Audeara product sold in George & Matilda Eyecare stores. Images: Audeara and G&M.

Audeara signs reseller agreement with George & Matilda Eyecare starting with Audeara Buds

GN’s new Australian facility: an industry-leading move reinforcing the ‘One GN’ philosophy

Caring for hearing in the country: Independent providers join forces

January 28, 2025

Newsweek names Cochlear the world’s most trustworthy healthcare company

January 21, 2025

Careers

Students at an Auslan beginners class run by Deaf Connect which says there are only 700 accredited Auslan interpreters in Australia. Image: Deaf Connect.

DeafConnect calls on Government to address shortage of Auslan interpreters

Audiology Australia calls for policy changes to improve access to hearing care services

People on the Move – February/March 2025 edition

Artificial intelligence to detect ear disease in Indigenous children – Dr Al-Rahim Habib

Products

Auracast is a new Bluetooth technology that uses a person’s phone to enable direct connection from hearing aids to audio broadcasts from crowded and public venues including cinemas, classrooms, airports, train stations and concerts. Image: Ruslan Grumble/stock.adobe.com.

Google announces Android users to stream Auracast broadcasts directly to hearing aids

Audeara signs reseller agreement with George & Matilda Eyecare starting with Audeara Buds

GN’s new Australian facility: an industry-leading move reinforcing the ‘One GN’ philosophy

GMHBA freezes increases to base premiums for extras including hearing aids

Features

Improving mental health and wellbeing in hearing patients

by Helen Carter

Several factors that can facilitate successful mental health referrals in audiology settings. Image: N Lawrenson/peopleimages.com/stock.adobe.com.

Features

There is a need for mental health support in audiology and hearing clinics. Audiologists working in this space, DR BEC BENNETT and DR EMMA LAIRD, discuss barriers and facilitators to this care, research and upcoming interventions while Beyond Blue also...

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From left, Melbourne audiologist Seray Lim with the five Cambodian scholarship recipients, L-R clockwise, Run Narin, Rom Maryya, Nov Chenda, Ben Sopanha, Pok Liza. Save Cambodian Children Fund Australia co-founders are Seda Douglas (right) and Saruon Preston (top). Image: Seray Lim.

Report

Seray’s Cambodian pilgrimages; inspiring people to look beyond borders and the audiometer

Hannah McPierzie, Deafblind West Australians (DBWA) chairperson, presenting at a DBWA event. Image: DBWA.

Soapbox

Reframing how we see deafblindness

The jewel in the crown; fully glassed meeting rooms and a viewing platform upstairs overlook the entire open-plan production floor. Image: GN.

Company updates & acquisitions

GN’s new Australian facility: an industry-leading move reinforcing the ‘One GN’ philosophy

John Ross's hearing loss and tinnitus began while working as a sound engineer. He says the mental health journey that accompanied his tinnitus has been as bad as the affliction itself. Image: John Ross.

Tinnitus

Tinnitus patient John Ross credits an audiologist with helping to save his life; now he’s giving back, not giving in

Events

Some of the online bootcamp speakers are, L-R (top), Erica Caiuby, Oli Luke, Dr Signe Steers, (middle) Dr Tegan Keogh, Kat Penno, A/Prof Mel Ferguson, (bottom), Grant Collins, Heidi Modrovich, and Will Mendoza. Images: IAA.

IAA Business Bootcamp 2025 online: Strengthening independent practice

Record attendance at Hearing Business Alliance 2025 Seminar in Melbourne

Sharing knowledge in Adelaide: Audiology Australia 2025 Conference preview

Strong turnout expected at Hearing Business Alliance 2025 Seminar in Melbourne

February 21, 2025

Treatments

Trials show the treatment halves the incidence of ototoxicity, or permanent hearing loss, in those who receive it while undergoing cisplatin chemotherapy. Image: Elbitaso/adobe.stock.com.

TGA evaluating PEDMARQSI to prevent hearing damage in children having cisplatin chemotherapy

The Cass Foundation funds Bionics Institute research to improve cochlear implant programming for infants

Better Access for Vic Kids grant to cut Eastern Health paediatric ENT wait lists

GN’s new Australian facility: an industry-leading move reinforcing the ‘One GN’ philosophy

Diagnostics & Equipment

Associate Professor David Szmulewicz with MJD Foundation staff (L-R) Kayte Bennett (speech pathologist), Julie Wunungmurra (Aboriginal community worker/senior cultural consultant), Gillian Edmiston (registered nurse), Gen Agostinelli (physiotherapist).
Image: The MJD Foundation.

New tool from the Eye and Ear and Bionics Institute for people with balance disorders

January 26, 2025

World’s first Auracast-enabled pub launched in Brisbane at Audeara Buds debut

December 15, 2024

Passe & Williams Foundation – a legacy for good

November 19, 2024

AirPods Pro 2 can be used as hearing aids for mild to moderate hearing loss, Apple claims

September 10, 2024

Research

The research seeks to enhance cochlear implant management for infants to ensure their implants are set up correctly at the earliest stages of life. Image: satura_/stock.adobe.com.

The Cass Foundation funds Bionics Institute research to improve cochlear implant programming for infants

People with hearing loss more likely to develop dementia, Dementia Australia warns

Hearing Diagnostics study suggests headphones may change the way young people hear and localise sound

University of Melbourne study finds cochlear implants may improve cognitive function, slow dementia symptoms

Australia

Sharing knowledge in Adelaide: Audiology Australia 2025 Conference preview

by Helen Carter

The conference, at the Adelaide Convention Centre, will be the nation’s largest hearing health event of the year, with more than 100 speakers including leading international and national experts. Image: jovannig/stock.adobe.com.

Conferences

The Audiology Australia 2025 Conference is heading to Adelaide from April 1 to 4 with an exceptional speaker line-up plus new initiatives to improve the attendee experience. Registration remains open until 25 March. The conference will be the nation’s largest...

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International

The conference will be in picturesque Wellington, New Zealand in January 2025. Image: Martin/stock.adobe.com.

Conferences

Coalition for Global Hearing Health Conference in New Zealand in January

December 3, 2024

Melbourne ENT surgeon Professor Stephen O’Leary pictured earlier this year with Victorian Health Minister Mary-Anne Thomas at the opening of The Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital redevelopment. Image: The Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital.

Cochlear implants

Sensorion study reveals breakthrough drug therapy can prevent residual hearing loss in cochlear implant patients

November 19, 2024

From left, Dr Issei Tanaka, Shizuoka Prefecture Hospital Organization president, Mr Yasutomo Suzuki, Governor Shizuoka Prefecture and Dr Aleisha Davis, The Shepherd Centre CEO, at the official signing on 5 November 2024 at Shizuoka Prefecture Government building. Image: The Shepherd Centre.

Hearing organisations

The Shepherd Centre exports early intervention program to Japan

November 7, 2024

The new requirements accommodate people with hearing loss who do not use hearing aids and those who rely on hearing aids or cochlear implants, the FCC said. Image: Trik/stock.adobe.com.

Regulators

All mobile phones in the US must be hearing aid compatible, say new FCC rules

October 28, 2024

Classifieds

Image: Specsavers Audiology.

Step in to leadership and build your future with Specsavers Audiology in Goulburn NSW

Join us as an employee in Ballarat/Wendouree, VIC

Join us as a Specsavers employee in Mandurah and Halls Head, WA

Step into leadership as an Acting Partner with Specsavers Audiology Castle Hill, NSW

Education

Students at an Auslan beginners class run by Deaf Connect which says there are only 700 accredited Auslan interpreters in Australia. Image: Deaf Connect.

DeafConnect calls on Government to address shortage of Auslan interpreters

University of Melbourne study finds cochlear implants may improve cognitive function, slow dementia symptoms

Yale University scientists find new ear ‘modes’ and layer of cochlear complexity

February 17, 2025

Medical Training Survey finds high rates of racism towards Indigenous medical trainees

February 1, 2025

Audiology

The HSP expansion will be funded by Hearing Australia’s commercial operations and will provide free hearing assessments, hearing aids and support to at risk individuals ineligible for Australian Government-funded hearing services through the HSP. Image: Engima/stock.adobe.com.

Hearing Services Program extends to provide free hearing aids to low income and unemployed Australians

Director of three practices in 19 months: Meredyth Haynes’ game-changing journey

Sharing knowledge in Adelaide: Audiology Australia 2025 Conference preview

Strong turnout expected at Hearing Business Alliance 2025 Seminar in Melbourne

February 21, 2025

Audiometry

Students at an Auslan beginners class run by Deaf Connect which says there are only 700 accredited Auslan interpreters in Australia. Image: Deaf Connect.

DeafConnect calls on Government to address shortage of Auslan interpreters

Audible Australia gifts the magic of storytime to children with hearing loss

Earbus co-founder Dr Lara Shur receives Dr Harry Blackmore AM Award

The Shepherd Centre opens life-changing Launceston centre for children with hearing loss

February 26, 2025

ENT Surgery

Mary-Anne Thomas, Victorian Minister for Health, tours one of the two new theatres with Dr Peter Bird, Eastern Health Divisional Director General Surgery. Image: Mary-Anne Thomas.

Better Access for Vic Kids grant to cut Eastern Health paediatric ENT wait lists

University of Melbourne study finds cochlear implants may improve cognitive function, slow dementia symptoms

Cochlear implants are life changing. So why aren’t more adults changing their lives?

February 25, 2025

Eye and Ear Hospital updates Victorian Governor on cochlear implants

February 14, 2025

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