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Indiara Wake

Emerge Australia & Bateman Horne Centre Collaboration

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 —

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Indiara Wake

Zoom: ME/CFS Meet the Gilmore Election Candidates 2025!

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

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Indiara Wake

The CEO Report | April 2025

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

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Indiara Wake

ABC News: When illness forced Sarah out of work, she thought she’d be off for six months. It turned into eight years

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

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Laura Kool

A message from the CEO

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 recover over a period of

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Indiara Wake

The Sydney Morning Hearld: It took 11 years for Adrienne’s illness to be diagnosed. A new computer model could change everything

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.

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Indiara Wake

SBS: The world has largely moved on from COVID-19. Meet the people who can’t

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

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Laura Kool

The CEO Report | March 2025

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

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Laura Kool

The CEO Report | February 2025

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

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Laura Kool

2025 Federal Election Priorities

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.

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