Published: 18 January 2025 Journalist Zoe Simmons writes about medical gaslighting and medical misogyny in this powerful article drawing on her own experiences and including interviews from Australian model and actor Amelia Tang and actress and myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) advocate Eliza Charley. Emerge Australia’s CEO Anne Wilson is quoted in the article discussing how rampant

Read the full December Newsletter Hello everyone and welcome to this final newsletter for 2024.    This newsletter is filled with information on the latest Emerge Australia news and information on our holiday shut down.    As we wrap up a successful year for Emerge Australia  and our work on your behalf we look optimistically forward

The Emerge Australia team would like to give a heartfelt thank you to Dr Richard Schloeffel OAM as he retires from medical practice and steps down as Emerge Australia’s Medical Director. Appointed at the beginning of 2022, Dr Schloeffel has dedicated his time as Medical Director to the clinical education of GPs and advancing awareness

Hello to all our supporters and readers of the Emerge Australia newsletter! This is our second last newsletter for the year so I wanted to take a moment to reflect on what has been a significant period of growth and resilience for our organisation. The Emerge Australia team has been hard at work, advancing our

As we head towards a busy time of year, many in our community look for ways to manage with the limited energy they have. We also know that these times of year can be difficult for many, with reminders of what you can’t do, missing out on experiences, and challenging family and relationship dynamics.   It’s

Our International Roundup provides a brief snapshot of some of the ME/CFS research funding, clinical care and advocacy actions around the world in the last few months.

Complete our survey!   The Australian Government is currently developing services for Australians with disability who aren’t eligible for the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). These will be called Foundational Supports.   There are two parts to Foundational Supports: General Supports: access to information, advice & referrals; as well as individual and community capacity building. Available to those who are and are not

Hello to all our supporters and readers of the Emerge Australia newsletter! We are in the final quarter of 2024 and it’s shaping up to be extremely busy as we charge towards the end of the year. With a federal election in the first half of 2025, pre-budget submissions due, a plethora of government submissions

Hello to all our supporters and readers of the Emerge Australia newsletter! Welcome to spring. In this edition of our newsletter, we highlight some of the exciting initiatives Emerge Australia is undertaking on your behalf around the country.  We are a little over three months away from the end of another calendar year and potentially

Hello to all our supporters and readers of the Emerge Australia newsletter! Welcome to the August 2024 edition of our Emerge Australia newsletter.  I don’t know about you, but do you feel the year is just flying by at a really fast pace?  At Emerge Australia we certainly do, probably because of the volume of

Published: 08 August 2024 The Disability Royal Commission was a landmark moment in the lives of Australians living with disability. Emerge Australia believes the Australian Government’s response to the Disability Royal Commission does not go far enough to address the scale of violence, abuse, neglect and exploitation of people with disability, reflected in the Commission’s

Our International Roundup provides a brief snapshot of some of the ME/CFS research funding, clinical care and advocacy actions around the world in the last few months.