News

Art is back!

We are very excited to announce that Art Riggs is returning to Australia in October to present two workshops.....Read more

2012 Annual General Meeting

AMT's Annual General meeting was held on 17 March 2012. Members will be notified of the release of the 2011 Annual Report via email. In the meantime, you can read the minutes from the AGM here.....Read more

AMT formaises partnership with NORPHCAM

AMT has formalised its partnership with the Network of Researchers in the Public Health of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NORPHCAM) via a Memorandum of Understanding. You can download a copy of the MoU here.....Read more

2012 Annual Conference in Sunshine Coast

AMT is excited to confirm that the 23rd Annual Conference will be held at The Twin Waters Resort in the Sunshine Coast on October 19 - 21. If a picture paints a thousand words then the conference flyer constitutes a novella's worth of reasons to block the date out in your diary .......Read more

Follow us on Twitter

Yes, that's right. AMT has joined the Twittersphere. Why not watch us get the hang of Tweeting as we try to distill all the important stuff from the world of massage therapy into 140 characters or less
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Consultation draft of AMT Code of Practice released

The AMT Board is excited to release the consultation draft of the Massage Therapy Code of Practice we have developed over the past 18 months.....Read more

Submission to the Australian Health Ministers Advisory Council

AMT recently attended the national consultation forum on options for the regulation of unregistered health practitioners, which was convened by the Australian Health Ministers Advisory Council (AHMAC). The purpose of the AHMAC consultation is to gather information and views to assist in determining the adequacy of existing protections for consumers who use the services of unregistered health practitioners and, if further public protection measures are required, what these should be and how they should be structured and administered.....Read more

NSW Code of Conduct for Unregistered Health Professionals comes into effect

From Friday August 1, 2008 all Massage Therapists working in NSW will be required to display a copy of the NSW Code of Conduct for Unregistered Health Professionals in their clinic(s). This new regulation was made as an amendment to the NSW Public Health Act (1991) and applies to all NSW AMT members.....Read more