InMotion Summer 2025: Fight Parkinson’s community magazine
We’re excited to share the Summer 2025 edition of InMotion, our free Parkinson’s community magazine for people living with Parkinson’s, their families, carers, and health-care professionals. You can now download the full issue by clicking the link in the ‘related resources for you’ section below (on mobile) or to the right (on a desktop computer). […]
The story behind the National Parkinson’s Action Plan
With more than 200,000 Australians affected by Parkinson’s, Australia has never had a national framework to guide how care, support, research, and policy responses should be coordinated. Recognising this gap, leaders from across the Parkinson’s community began working together to call for national action. 2023 – National taskforce established In August 2023, a national taskforce […]
National Parkinson’s Action Plan: An update from Fight Parkinson’s
The NPAP represents years of advocacy and collaboration across the Parkinson’s community and sector, led by the National Parkinson’s Alliance (NPA) of which Fight Parkinson’s is a founding member. Most importantly, it reflects the voices and experiences of more than 200,000 people living with Parkinson’s, their families, and carers. Joining us at the launch in Canberra were Sheenagh Bottrell and Pam […]
Women in the Fight Parkinson’s community: A celebration
In 2025, Shona Cross was honoured with the Sir Zelman Cowen Award for her outstanding Parkinson’s advocacy work, vulnerability in sharing her story with the world, and ambassadorship of Fight Parkinson’s. Ten years after her Parkinson’s diagnosis, Shona’s spirit of resilience, connection, and hope remains at the heart of Fight Parkinson’s. “Fight Parkinson’s have been so good to me, and I do these things because I want […]
Fight Parkinson’s lodges public submission to the new Individual Disability Advocacy Program
This week, Fight Parkinson’s has lodged a public submission to the Australian Government’s consultation on the new Individual Disability Advocacy Program (IDAP). Our submission draws on clinical, lived experience, and service delivery expertise to highlight the advocacy needs of people living with Parkinson’s and rarer Atypical Parkinson’s conditions, including Progressive Supranuclear Palsy (PSP), Multiple System Atrophy (MSA), and Corticobasal Syndrome (CBS), and how a new IDAP can better support them […]
Annual Report 2024–2025
Launching the Fight Parkinson’s 2024–25 Annual Report We’re proud to share the 2024–25 Annual Report, highlighting a year of growth, connection and meaningful progress towards improving life for people living with Parkinson’s, PSP, MSA and CBS. This year, we expanded our advocacy efforts, strengthened our research focus and deepened partnerships across Australia and globally — […]
InMotion Spring 2025: Fight Parkinson’s community magazine
We’re excited to share the Spring 2025 edition of InMotion, our free Parkinson’s community magazine for people living with Parkinson’s, their families, carers, and health-care professionals. You can now download the full issue by clicking the link in the ‘related resources for you’ section below (on mobile) or to the right (on a desktop computer). […]
New website guarantees easier access to essential Parkinson’s information
Our new content-rich website has been designed to be simple to navigate while continuing to prove the trusted knowledge and resources you need, when you need them. Living with Parkinson’s is a fight – and no one should have to face it alone. At Fight Parkinson’s, we fight every day to realise possibilities for people […]
Mae was formidable, remarkable, but Progressive Supranuclear Palsy took her away too soon
These are the words of Queeny Stafford, who cared for her mum in the years before and after Mae’s diagnosis with Progressive Supranuclear Palsy (PSP). Queeny generously shared her story with us in the hope that other families will not feel as alone as she did, traversing the long and difficult journey to diagnosis. When […]
Inaugural community-funded seed research grant recipients announced
The generosity of the Fight Parkinson’s community has enabled two researchers to receive grants of $30,000 to pursue promising new research towards early-stage ideas with potential for major breakthroughs. Two grants were awarded, one in clinical research and one in basic science. Fight Parkinson’s believes these projects are on the verge of major breakthroughs and […]