The 2024 federal Budget was delivered by Treasurer Jim Chalmers a few months ago and although it did not have much to help the consumer navigate the health system, it did attempt to ease cost-of-living pressures.

Holly Shuttleworth considers the historical background to the experiences and challenges facing LGBTQIA+ patients today.

Ruth Grant explores the life and remarkable career of South Australian physiotherapist Anna Dorothea (Nan) Morrison, who graduated in 1938 and observed many changes in the profession over the following decades.

Physiotherapist Alisha da Silva has received a Physiotherapy Research Foundation Seeding Grant to co-design a website for patients returning home from the ICU.

Jane Latimer AO has been recognised internationally for her research into low back pain and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and for her powerful leadership and advocacy for women.

A group of physiotherapists in Melbourne recently conducted a mixed-methods study to investigate the student experience of near-peer-led simulation in physiotherapy education. Senior author Associate Professor Selina Parry answers some questions about the study and its findings.

A group of physiotherapists in Melbourne has tackled the issue of clinical supervision for physiotherapists practising in the public health system. Corresponding author David Snowdon answers some questions about their randomised trial.

Governments and health departments often baulk at innovative models of healthcare.

Robert Vander Kraats was a fit and active physiotherapist with a bustling private practice in Perth when he experienced a stroke mid-consultation with a patient. To coincide with International Day of People with a Disability this month, Robert shares his remarkable story here.

In April last year, Victorian physiotherapist Alisha da Silva was given news that brightened what had been a pretty terrible week. While isolating at home with a nasty bout of COVID-19, Alisha was told that her application for a Felice Rosemary Lloyd Scholarship had been successful.