Final-year physiotherapy student Martin Collyer and physiotherapist researchers Dr Roma Forbes and Curtley Nelson reflect on the role of the new graduate and call on the profession to consider changing the dialogue about our newest members.

Congratulations to New South Wales-based physiotherapists Anwar Hassan and Cameron Edwards, winners in the recent NSW Excellence in Allied Health Awards 2021. The inaugural awards recognise outstanding allied health professionals across NSW Health’s allied health workforce.

Recently the APA entered into its first partnership with an Indigenous-owned business, Integrity Health & Safety, which provides first-aid equipment, supplies and training. A conversation with co-founder Liam Harte about the company.

Fly2 Health Group is an allied health service based in Perth, which regularly flies physiotherapists and other allied health clinicians out to rural and remote towns and communities in Western Australia. We talk here to founder and pilot Kennedy Lay about flying and physiotherapy.

When Brisbane-based Indigenous software development company LOGiT was approached to develop a platform to manage Reconciliation strategies, the team jumped at the opportunity. 

The APA has just launched its third Reconciliation Action Plan, focusing on making the physiotherapy profession culturally safe for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander professionals and patients and providing a viable and clear career pathway for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in physiotherapy. A conversation with APA President Scott Willis and APA Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Committee Chair Kathryn Potter about Reconciliation and the importance of the RAP.