Welcome to our ‘News In Brief’ column in which we digest all the news releases for you in no more than five paragraphs.
Below are snippets of all the media releases we received from May 4 till the end of the week.
This article updates throughout the week.
Pentagon’s $21M Animal Test Waste
Perth, May 8: Animal rights organisation PETA U.S. has written to Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth calling on the War Department to cut funding for animal experiments being conducted in Australian laboratories.
PETA’s research reveals more than $21 million has been funnelled into foreign animal laboratories over the past seven years, including funding to Australian institutions such as Recce Pharmaceuticals in Sydney, the University of Queensland, and the University of Melbourne.
Experiments funded include inflicting severe thermal burns on rats and pigs, subjecting pigs to traumatic haemorrhage, and implanting magnetic stents into the brains of sheep.
PETA Australia Senior Campaigns Advisor Mimi Bekhechi said the funding should be redirected toward animal-free research methods.
Allied Health Workforce Crisis Demands Action
Perth, May 8: Australia’s peak body for health sciences education is calling on Federal Health Minister Mark Butler to urgently develop a national allied health workforce strategy.
The Australian Council of Deans of Health Sciences (ACDHS) says the country lacks effective national workforce data collection and a coordinated approach to planning, despite a growing crisis in allied health access.
The call comes as new data shows a continued decline in allied health care time in aged care facilities, and as demand for allied health support increasingly outstrips supply.
ACDHS represents more than 300,000 allied health professionals and says an additional 25,000 workers will need to be trained by 2033 to meet aged care targets alone.
The organisation is calling on Minister Butler to partner with peak bodies to establish evidence-based workforce data and support growth of the allied health workforce nationally.
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