Emerge Australia is excited to announce that our Research Director, Simone Eyssens, has been appointed to the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) ME/CFS Guideline Development Committee.  Australia’s clinical ME/CFS guidelines are over 20 years old. This committee is the culmination of more than 10 years of advocacy efforts by many in our community.

Published: 23 June 2025 If you would like to make a complaint directly to SBS regarding this episode you can do so here: Formal SBS complaint form Invisible, Misrepresented, and Harmed: ME/CFS Voices Demand Accountability from SBS A Joint Statement from Participants and Advocates in Response to the 20 May 2025 Episode of Insight This

Published: 13 June 2025 Our Call To The NDIA  We call on the NDIA to:  Reverse the decision to cap travel at 50% of the hourly rate; Price all allied health practitioners the same;   Prioritise equity and complexity in future pricing reform.  People with ME/CFS are forced to advocate persistently for recognition of their disability

Read the full June Newsletter Hello to all our supporters and readers of the Emerge Australia newsletter! It is hard to believe we are only weeks away from the end of the financial year which means we are already half-way through 2025. I don’t know about you but that is a scary thought – I

Read Emerge Australia’s response to the episode Published: 9 June 2025 Media correspondent Amanda Meade reports on the backlash following an SBS Insight episode about myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). Participants and advocacy groups, including Emerge Australia, have criticized the program for presenting a potentially harmful and unscientific narrative. The episode prominently featured an individual

SBS Insight program “Invisible Illness” Emerge Australia would like to express its concern, deep frustration and disappointment about the harmful narrative presented on Insight’s program that aired on SBS on Tuesday evening (20/5/2025) about Invisible Illnesses. Based on Insight’s positive reputation as well-researched, serious journalism, we promoted the episode to our community. We were pleased

ME/CFS Awareness Week 2025 Community member Miriam Adler penned a first-person piece about her life living with ME/CFS to coincide with ME/CFS Awareness Week. It appeared online in News.com.au mastheads ranging from the Herald Sun, Gold Coast Bulletin, Adelaide Advertiser and Daily Telegraph, among others. The article is behind a paywall, so we are reproducing it here.

Read the full May Newsletter Hello to all our supporters and readers of the Emerge Australia newsletter! What a month it has been culminating on 3 May with the Federal Election and a historic win for the Australia Labor Party. We congratulate the Albanese government on being re-elected for another term and look forward to

Published: 1 May 2025 📣 Exciting Collaboration Announcement 🌏 Emerge Australia and Bateman Horne Center (BHC) are partnering to strengthen international efforts in patient-centered care for ME/CFS, long COVID, and other energy limiting conditions. Together, we’re building on Emerge Australia’s exceptional library of self-paced education modules — designed by and for people with ME/CFS —

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