Within this landscape, physiotherapy plays a crucial role in restoring mobility, functionality and quality of life to individuals grappling with a myriad of conditions.

In the western Asia-Pacific region, where unequal access to healthcare persists, the APA’s assistance has the potential to be transformative.

The APA, like all professional associations, surveys its members to learn more about your issues and concerns and the priorities you want us to pursue.

Through a yearly member census, regular quick polls and other health metrics, we analyse information on member views.

It is always so encouraging to hear what our national groups, advisory councils and branches are working on to advance physiotherapy.

It is also a pleasure to see the different groups connecting with each other and assessing how they can better work together and share advocacy and professional development.

Every year, the federal government calls for submissions on Budget priorities. 

This review is one of the most important events happening in healthcare reform right now. 

Its purpose is to assess the opportunities that could be realised if all professions, including physiotherapy, could work to full scope of practice. 

Universities that provide physiotherapy education and the broader physiotherapy profession should seek to develop sustainable and mutually beneficial educational partnerships. 

Direct physiotherapy referrals are an obvious reform that’s long overdue, explains APA General Manager, Policy and Government Relations Simon Tatz.

The role of the APA Policy and Government Relations team is to advocate for change. 

We always strive for ‘better’—better access to care, a better patient journey, better health outcomes, better use of the physiotherapy workforce and better use of physiotherapists’ skills and scope of practice.

Australia’s health system is overly complex and weighed down by an overlapping and competing federal–state divide. 

Preferred provider schemes (PPS), often synonymous with increased patient referrals and streamlined administrative processes, have become a cornerstone of modern healthcare delivery. 

The Physiotherapy Board of Australia has released updated physiotherapy practice thresholds for Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand.

A decade ago, the former CEO of Mental Health Australia, John Mendoza, produced a massive three-volume reflection on 30 years of mental health reform in Australia and visions for the future.

He titled this landmark collection of essays and articles Obsessive Hope Disorder.

The heading reflected an obsessive optimism that, any day now, reforms will be delivered to improve healthcare.