New tips for Australia’s beauty business
Natasha Might
Australians having beauty procedures may have stronger protections from at the moment, with new tips for well being practitioners coming into impact.
The rules, revealed by the Australian Well being Practitioner Regulation Company (Ahpra), goal unsafe practices and deceptive adverts for non-surgical beauty procedures equivalent to injections and fillers.
Beneath the brand new guidelines, additional coaching or schooling will probably be essential for a lot of well being practitioners desirous to develop the providers they supply into these procedures. Many will want extra than simply the foundational {qualifications} – nurses, for instance, will probably be required to finish a set interval of apply earlier than they’re allowed to carry out these procedures.
The nursing and midwifery board of Australia chair, adjunct Prof Veronica Casey, stated the rules are the strong response wanted to safeguard customers within the rising business.
Lots of people would possibly consider these procedures in the identical method they’d think about getting a facial or a haircut. However these are medical procedures and require applicable coaching and expertise to be carried out safely.
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The federal government will work to limit entry to so-called “nudify” apps and undetectable on-line stalking instruments, that use generative AI to create deepfake pornographic pictures.
The restrictions will probably be put in place in session with business, and communications minister Anika Wells says that just like the social media ban for beneath 16s, the onus will probably be on the tech firms to stop the provision of those instruments.
In a press release, Wells stated these “abusive applied sciences” are extensively and simply accessible.
These new, evolving, applied sciences require and a brand new, proactive, strategy to hurt prevention– and we’ll work intently with business to attain this.
Whereas this transfer received’t eradicate the issue of abusive expertise in a single fell swoop, alongside present legal guidelines and our world-leading on-line security reforms, it’ll make an actual distinction in defending Australians.
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Mark Butler is doing the media rounds this morning. He’s popped up on the As we speak present and is being requested about Australia’s migration determine for this yr.
The weekend’s protests, centred on anti-immigration sentiment, have led to some false claims about Australia’s migration numbers. My colleague Josh Butler has accomplished a deep dive on what the precise numbers are, which you’ll be able to learn right here.
Butler says the abroad migration determine, revealed by the Treasury division, has been coming down from a submit Covid surge.
Requested what the everlasting migration numbers are for the 2024-25 yr, which the federal government had set to 185,000, Butler doesn’t have “that quantity proper off the highest of my head” however says the quantity is greater than that – although it’s round 40% decrease than the variety of migrants coming in throughout that post-Covid peak.
I feel there’s a actual pressure between recognising that there are actual pressures on our housing system and different components of the economic system, whereas additionally, I do know, intimately recognising we’re actually struggling to get the employees we have to ship the hospital providers, the aged care providers and construct the homes.
Karl Stefanovic isn’t completely happy that the federal government isn’t handing over the present migration numbers and says this interview “is a bit like an episode of Frontline”.
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Labor and Liberal frontbenchers agree: public land needs to be public land
There’s no less than one factor that Labor frontbencher Amanda Rishworth and Liberal frontbencher Tim Wilson have in frequent, and that’s an opposition to a Sydney council’s thought to cost giant teams – together with colleges, canine walkers or private trainers – to pay to make use of public parks.
North Sydney council is contemplating a brand new payment for teams of 21 folks or extra at parks which are closely utilized by personal colleges and industrial operators.
On the As we speak present earlier, Rishworth stated “public land needs to be public land”:
Public land needs to be public land … on occasion councils would possibly must handle how that public land is shared. However finally public land needs to be public land.
Wilson stated the thought “doesn’t move the pub check”, however there have been exceptions.
Except you’re utilizing it for a industrial function, after which, after all, for those who’re a part of a small enterprise utilizing it for industrial function, then there needs to be some dialogue.
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Josh Butler
Australia should modernise its well being system and chase productiveness positive aspects within the care discipline, the Enterprise Council has stated in a serious new report, saying hospitals should improve from methods generally based mostly on paper copies and fax machines.
The BCA says the healthcare sector should additionally look to maximise advantages from synthetic intelligence, which the enterprise group says may unencumber large chunks of docs’ time to allow them to see extra sufferers or keep away from burnout.
Its Supporting A Wholesome and Productive Nation report says with out higher innovation, the well being system will face poorer service supply in future. It notes the variety of retirees to working-age folks rising, the hole between Medicare levy income and advantages paid out and rising expediture on aged care and the NDIS.
A serious suggestion is for the well being system to speculate extra in digital expertise in a bid to extend productiveness and eradicate duplications or errors.
Rohan Mead, chair of the BCA’s Well being committee and CEO of banking and insurance coverage agency Australian Unity, stated:
In 2025, it might astound many Australians that almost all of hospitals are nonetheless paper-based and that as much as 75% of world fax visitors comes from medical providers.
AI has the potential to unencumber 30% of a clinician’s time, permitting them to spend extra time with Australians, whereas telehealth already saves Australians as much as $895m per yr in decreased journey – these are enhancements that make everybody higher off.
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Good morning,
Krishani Dhanji right here with you for what will probably be one other busy sitting day in parliament, because of Martin Farrer for getting us began.
There’s loads developing, so let’s get straight into it!
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Arguments to cut back tobacco excise ‘simplistic’ and ‘misguided’: AMA
Natasha Might
Calls to cut back the tobacco excise as a method to deal with the unlawful tobacco business are a “simplistic, misguided and ineffective resolution”, Australia’s peak medical physique says.
The president of the Australian Medical Affiliation, Dr Danielle McMullen, stated there had been a “worrying enhance in calls to cut back tobacco excise, with the thought, not surprisingly, backed by large tobacco.”
The scheduled rise within the tobacco excise occurred earlier this week after criticism from the NSW premier, Chris Minns, and Victoria’s minister for on line casino, gaming and liquor regulation, who blamed excessive tobacco costs for a spike in violent crime associated to the illicit commerce – an thought which was rejected by federal ministers, citing abroad proof.
McMullen stated:
There’s completely no proof to help the concept lowering excise will impression unlawful tobacco — in truth the proof says the other, with jurisdictions which have decreased the excise seeing a horrible mixture of elevated smoking charges and no tangible impression on the unlawful tobacco commerce.
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Natasha Might
Crackdown on promoting idealising or sexualising beauty procedures
Adjustments to the foundations round Promoting for beauty surgical procedure will concentrate on higher-risk procedures, requiring ads solely use actual pictures and keep away from airbrushing or enhancing that misleads the general public.
The rules additionally specify that using images, movies and pictures in promoting should not “idealise or sexualise greater danger beauty procedures via using sexualised pictures, equivalent to poses suggestive of sexual positions, parting of legs, arms positioned close to genitals or positions that indicate sexual readiness, or gratuitous nudity.”
Ahpra says the rules can even supply higher safety for younger folks, with these beneath the age of 18 contemplating non-surgical beauty procedures required to have a compulsory seven-day cooling-off interval between their first session and any procedures, whereas promoting by practitioners aimed toward beneath 18s can even be banned.
Ahpra’s CEO, Justin Untersteiner, stated practitioners have had since Might to get their homes so as and ensure their apply and promoting complies with the brand new tips.
“Practitioners have been warned. If we discover practitioners prioritising earnings over affected person care, we is not going to hesitate to behave.”
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New tips for Australia’s beauty business
Natasha Might
Australians having beauty procedures may have stronger protections from at the moment, with new tips for well being practitioners coming into impact.
The rules, revealed by the Australian Well being Practitioner Regulation Company (Ahpra), goal unsafe practices and deceptive adverts for non-surgical beauty procedures equivalent to injections and fillers.
Beneath the brand new guidelines, additional coaching or schooling will probably be essential for a lot of well being practitioners desirous to develop the providers they supply into these procedures. Many will want extra than simply the foundational {qualifications} – nurses, for instance, will probably be required to finish a set interval of apply earlier than they’re allowed to carry out these procedures.
The nursing and midwifery board of Australia chair, adjunct Prof Veronica Casey, stated the rules are the strong response wanted to safeguard customers within the rising business.
Lots of people would possibly consider these procedures in the identical method they’d think about getting a facial or a haircut. However these are medical procedures and require applicable coaching and expertise to be carried out safely.
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Good morning and welcome to our dwell information weblog. I’m Martin Farrer with the highest in a single day tales after which Krishani Dhanji will take you thru one other busy day in Canberra and past.
Australians present process beauty procedures ought to have extra safety from rogue operators beneath new tips launched at the moment by the regulator. The brand new guidelines crack down on deceptive adverts and would require higher coaching for practitioners.
Elsewhere in well being, calls to cut back the tobacco excise as a method to deal with the unlawful tobacco business are a “simplistic, misguided and ineffective resolution”, Australia’s peak medical physique says.
And the Albanese authorities will face renewed stress at the moment from opposition events to launch instant in-home aged care funding; whereas there can even be extra scrutiny on the federal government’s Nauru deportation plan – although Anthony Albanese has denied there may be something secret about it. We’ll have all of the developments as they occur at the moment.
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