The ‘Know Your Bones’ Community Risk Report was launched on 18 October at an event at Parliament House Canberra, by the Minister for Health, The Hon Greg Hunt MP, and the Minister for Senior Australian and Aged care, the Hon Ken Wyatt AM MP. Special national ambassadors for World Osteoporosis Day, Olympic Gold Medallist Sally Pearson OAM and Former Australian Cricket Captain Michael Clarke, attended the event and encouraged Australians to be aware of their bone health. Know Y

The increasing global burden of hip fractures is wellknown to readers of this Newsletter. The Asia-Pacific region will constitute half of the world’s hip fractures by mid-century. Data is a powerful tool to allow hospital systems to optimise the provision of care to this fragile patient group but collecting data and implementing real change are disparate tasks. The ANZHFR “Hip Festivals” are an initiative of the Registry to harness the collective knowledge of key stakeholders

Osteoporosis Australia hosted an education booth at the NSW Seniors Expo in Sydney on 5 – 6 April 2018. It is estimated around 20,000 seniors attended the event and we had around 1600 face-to-face interactions at our booth over the two days. Of those, many had been diagnosed with osteoporosis and with and without fracture, and many needed some guidance from us on what needs to be done for them. We are pleased to report several special guests took the time to visit our booth a

The Budget submission which Osteoporosis Australia and the Alliance jointly made to the Hon Ken Wyatt, Minister for Aged Care and Minister for Indigenous Health in December 2017 was considered as part of the Budget process early this year. Whilst our submission for funds to develop 10 pilot sites with Secondary Fracture Prevention Programs was not successful at this time, we have received advice on what our next steps should be;. particularly to approach the State and Territo