BACKGROUND OF OSTEOPATHY AUSTRALIA

• You are joining a proud and effective professional association built by the hard work and dedication of other osteopaths, both past and present. Your own contribution to the profession and to the association will be appreciated and valued. • Osteopathy Australia provides a unified voice in advocating, enhancing, promoting and representing osteopathy, while delivering quality educational and professional support. • Osteopathy Australia was established in 1955 and, following the amalgamation of individual state associations, became one national association in 1991.

• Osteopathy Australia works with the osteopathy universities, Osteopathy Board of Australia (OBA), the Australasian

Osteopathic Accreditation Council (AOAC), as well as many national and international associations and bodies such as Allied Health Professions Australia, Osteopathic International Alliance, the American Osteopathic Association (AOA), the UK Institute of Osteopathy (iO) and Osteopaths New Zealand and some international regulators. • Osteopathy Australia also works closely with a range of government bodies and stakeholders such as the

Department of Health and Ageing, various State Health Departments, Department of Veterans’ Affairs and the statebased workers or traffic compensation schemes.