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Zoom Webinar: April 23, 2025 05:00 PM AEST Meet the federal election candidates in Gilmore in a virtual meeting about ME/CFS, long COVID, fibromyalgia and associated conditions. Fiona Phillips ALP Andrew Constance Liberal Kate Dezarnaulds Independent In the context of the five organisation’s federal election priorities, Emerge Australia is supporting Tracey Collins, a Gilmore resident

Read the full April Newsletter Hello to all our supporters and readers of the Emerge Australia newsletter! As I write, Australia is gearing up for a federal election on 3 May. In our previous newsletter we outlined to you our election strategy designed in collaboration with our colleagues in Bridges & Pathways; ME/CFS Australia; MEANA

Published: 7 April 2025 Journalist Hayley Gleeson, winner of Emerge Australia’s Media Awards for Excellence in Journalism 2025 (Long COVID), shares the story of Sarah Williams, after chronic illness forced Sarah to leave her university job, a planned six-month break turned into eight years. Battling ME/CFS, she returned to her childhood home in Tasmania’s Meander

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.

Anne Wilson, Chief Executive Officer  I want to briefly address feedback from a few regarding quotes attributed to me in a recent article published in The Age and SMH about a machine-learning tool developed by researchers at University of Melbourne that can predict ME/CFS. I was reported as commenting that people with long COVID will largely

Published: 29 March 2025 Journalists Broede Carmody and Hannah Kennelly, discuss the potential for a new computational method designed to significantly improve the diagnosis of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS). The approach promises to provide more accurate, objective, and efficient diagnostics for this complex condition, which has long been difficult to identify through traditional methods.

Published: 14 March 2025 Saturday, 15 March marks International Long COVID Awareness Day. Five years after COVID-19 was declared a global pandemic, many Australians are still battling its long-term effects. Journalist Jessica Bahr speaks with Long COVID sufferers and experts about the challenges they face as the world moves on. Emerge Australia’s CEO Anne Wilson

Read the full March Newsletter Hello to all our supporters and readers of the Emerge Australia newsletter! It has been an extremely hectic buildup to announcements out of Canberra regarding the Federal Election. Emerge Australia’s 2025 election campaign is being run in collaboration with Bridges & Pathways, Emerge Australia, MEANA, ME/CFS Australia and Myalgic Encephalomyelitis

Read the full February Newsletter Hello to all our supporters and readers of the Emerge Australia newsletter! A warm welcome to everyone reading the Emerge Australia newsletter in 2025. Whether you have just heard of us and joined or whether you are longstanding members of the ME/CFS and long COVID communities, we are delighted to

Published: 12 February 2025 These Election Commitments unite Australian ME/CFS organisations around broad priorities for the sector. It sends a strong, coordinated message to MPs and Ministers. Participating organisations will use these Commitments to support their own advocacy efforts and lobbying for their priorities.

Published: 11 February 2025

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.

Hello to all our supporters and readers of the Emerge Australia newsletter! Thank you to our wonderful community This is the first newsletter of our new financial year and I want to say a heartfelt thank you to everyone who donated to our end of financial year (EOFY) appeal. Thank you for your donations and

Receive updates on Health Professional Education opportunities Following the success of our GP education course delivered at GPCE last year, Emerge Australia hosted an updated, CPD GP education series in May 2024 on our Learning Management System. We did this with the support of an unrestricted educational grant from Moderna. 76 GPs and Allied Health

Published: 20 June 2024 ABC’s Ali Moore in conversation with Emerge Australia CEO Anne Wilson about the importance of the governments announcement of funding updated ME/CFS clinical guidelines and what that will mean for the community. Segment starts at 1:57:12 and finishes at 2:12:20 Listen here

Read the full NewsGP article here Published 20 June 2024 The Federal Government will spend $1.1 million to have the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) develop new guidelines for long COVID and myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). According to a statement from Federal Health and Aged Care Minister Mark Butler, the guidelines will

Read Minister Butler’s media release Media release: published 20 June 2024 New Hope for Australians battling ME/CFS and long COVID   Emerge Australia, the national patient organisation for people living with ME/CFS and long COVID, has welcomed Federal Government funding to update evidence based clinical guidelines, so health professionals can better diagnose and manage these

Read Emerge Australia’s media release Read Minister Butler’s media release Hello to all our supporters and readers of the Emerge Australia newsletter! As we approach the end of the financial year for 2023/24, I am delighted to share with you all the monumental decision by the Albanese Labor Government and announced by Health Minister Mark

Read Emerge Australia’s media release OFFICIAL MARK BUTLER MP MINISTER FOR HEALTH AND AGED CARE MEDIA RELEASE BACKING BELIEF WITH BETTER SUPPORT FOR PEOPLE WITH CHRONIC FATIGUE The Albanese Government has heard the calls for better support for people with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS), long COVID and related conditions, with funding to develop new