Australian Optometrical Association

found: Clinical & experimental optometry, Jan. 1986:contents. p. (Australian Optometrical Association) ; Jan. 2002 cover (Optometrists Association Australia)

found: Association website, viewed Apr. 10, 2002(Optometrists Association Australia, formerly known as the Australian Optometrical Association)

found: Optometry Australia website, viewed 12 October 2022:history page (first known optometry association was the Australasian Optical Association, formed in Sydney in 1904, which planned to federate into an organisation representing all branches of the profession in Australia and New Zealand; when a state association was formed in Queensland in 1908, the Sydney-based Australasian Optometrical Association converted itself into a second state association representing the interests of optometrists in New South Wales, and changed its name to the Institute of Ophthalmic Opticians of New South Wales, abandoning the goal of being a national association; other states followed in Queensland's path; at the first National Conference of the State Associations in Melbourne in 1918, it was proposed that the individual State Associations should 'affiliate', and a new national association was established named the Australasian Optometrical Association, AOA; national professional body)

found: Encyclopedia of Australian science and innovation website, viewed 12 October 2022(Australian Optometrical Association; its aims included promoting the general advancement of the optometrical profession and to protect the standards of community eye and vision care; c. 1998, the Association changed its name, becoming the Optometrists Association Australia, based in Carlton, Victoria)

found: MiVision website, 24 March 2016:history item (the Australasian Optometrical Association was founded as a federation of the State associations at the first national conference of State Associations held in Melbourne on December 3-6, 1918, where it was also recommended the State Associations change their names to include 'optometrists' or 'optometrical', either to 'Institute of Optometrists' or 'Optometrical Association'; in 1952 the State Associations agreed to adopt a uniform style of 'Australian Optometrical Association' followed by the name of the State)