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Apple iPad winner Joe Wang and Device Technologies’ Gary Wyatt The Garage Café & Bar in Carlton was the venue on 30 April for the ‘University of Melbourne Optometry Students Trivia Specta Read More

In response to a growing trend to grant prescribing rights to more non-medical health professionals, the Australian Medical Association has adopted a formal position rejecting all forms of independent non-medical practitioner pres Read More

The announcement of Brisbane as the new home for a new look ODMA2013 has met with enthusiastic support from the industry – so much so that the Optical Distributors and Manufacturers Association’s board has decided to i Read More

Sixty-two students have enrolled in the University of Melbourne’s four-year postgraduate course in optometry leading to a Doctorate in Optometry (OD). The majority have completed a three-year undergraduate course, primaril Read More

Australian Vision Convention (formerly Queensland Vision) was held at the Gold Coast Convention & Exhibition Centre on 13-15 April. It was hosted by the Optometrists  Read More

John Nicola Victorian John Nicola, managing director of wholesaler Optique Line, finished in the top 35 per cent of entrants (285th out of 853 starters) in the 2012 Marathon Des Sables, a six-day 250km endurance Read More

Specsavers has won a case against discount online contact-lens supplier Coastal Contacts in the Federal Court of Australia over engaging in conduct which is misleading or deceptive, thereby being in breach of the Competition and C Read More

Professor Irvin Max Borish, OD, one of the true greats of optometry in the United States and therefore significant to the profession at large, died in Boca Raton, Florida, on 3 March at the grand old age of 99 after a brief illnes Read More

The president of the Association of British Dispensing Opticians, Ms Jennifer Brower, has proposed that a special register of dispensing opticians qualified to refract and prescribe be set up in the United Kingdom. The proposal Read More

Keith Horton, a co-founder of Optical Manufacturers, died on 13 March, aged 87 years. He, along with Gerald Dagg and Norman Smyth, founded the company in Sydney in 1964, distributing ophthalmic instruments and equipment, frames  Read More