Abstract
It was 1993 that heralded the beginning of an organisation that would change the face of wound care in Australia. During a seasonally warm March in Perth, a working party to examine the formation of an Australian Wound Management Association (AWMA) was convened during the inaugural Australian conference on wound care ‘Turning Wound Care Upside Down’. The Association was formalised a year later at the first international wound management meeting in Melbourne ‘Wound Care A New Course for an Ancient Craft’ under the presidency of Professor Michael Stacey and the journey began. What the organisation would achieve over the next two decades would surpass their wildest dreams and reach beyond the wide brown land girt by seas. Created by like-minded passionate and dedicated nurses, doctors, podiatrists and other allied health professionals, key activities of AWMA during the formative years were, and still are, underpinned by the core values of collegiality and teamwork with the genuine interest in improving the lives of people with wounds...