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Is Australia's pharma workforce at breaking point?

Job losses across Australian pharma have stretched workforces - some to breaking point - with employees who have escaped redundancy, left to pick up the work of one, two, or three or more employees who have left

Leadership & People

Ex-Aussie GM lifts lid on job search

The Australian pharma job market is a journey for everyone, even Country Leaders, as this former boss has revealed

Regulatory & Reimbursement

PBAC preps for submission complexities

The Department has released guidance on how to use AI in PBAC submissions and established a rolling review of PBAC guidelines

Sales, Marketing & Public Relations

Who's nabbed 10 PRIME Award nominations?

Company heads into the PRIME Awards next week as a finalist for a staggering 10 campaigns across four categories. This is how they did it...

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Pharma spend on HCPs shrinks

Companies lowered the amount they spent on HCPs each month in the first half of 2026, with just two pharmas getting into seven figures

Jobs & Workplace

Companies line up talent for 2027

There's been a wave of movement across Australian pharma with promotions, new hires, departures and even a retirement as a new year looms

Industry & Companies

Scam headhunters targeting Aussie pharma execs

Scammers impersonating legitimate Big Pharma in-house recruiters are targeting Australian industry professionals with lucrative high-income roles as part of a money-making racket

Leadership & People

Ex-CSL exec steps into CEO role

After eight-plus years with the Aussie giant, this industry leader has taken a CEO role at a biotech with big ambitions to transform precision medicine

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Sales, Marketing & Public Relations

New access model reshaping pharma

Direct-to-patient programs are considered "mission critical" according to a third of pharma professionals who believe it will transform access

Pipeline & Intellectual Property

Supply setback extends shortage into 2027

A national shortage of this treatment is expected to continue into 2027 after the pharma confirmed an order, expected this month, is now “unlikely”

Jobs & Workplace

Pharma urged to grow Aussie workforce

New report on the Australian clinical trials workforce reveals the same people are either being reshuffled or lost, while others struggle to crack the market

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Industry & Companies

Was this Aussie pharma's Best Kept Secret?

A bombshell announcement from two industry high-flyers was kept completely under wraps despite multiple big-name organisations getting on board with the new pharma venture. And now, they've detailed a potentially market-disrupting business model for medicines access

Industry & Companies

Pharma sold at undisclosed price

An international private equity firm has reached an agreement to acquire this pharma, with plans to support its global growth ambitions

Patients

Riders pedal past fundraising target

Aussie BMS staffers have raised double their original goal for Rare Cancers Australia through an 18,000 kilometre, 15-day cycling event in Japan

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    HPGSydneySales
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    HPGSydneySales
  6. Warehouse & Logistics Supervisor New

    HPGVirginiaOther
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  8. Marketing Manager New

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Matt Zeller launches new Australian pharma

Five months after leaving Arrotex, the former Novartis Country President ANZ is launching his own Sydney-headquartered pharma company with another high-profile exec as Co-Founder

Government & Policy

Boosting PBS spending a political no-brainer

New research commissioned by Pfizer Australia exposes near-universal public support for expanding the PBS among Coalition, Labor, Greens and One Nation voters

Regulatory & Reimbursement

New drugs flood the ARTG

Last week saw a string of medicines registered on the ARTG, including two heart drugs, a new contraceptive option, and Novo’s hyped obesity pill

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Leadership & People

Pfizer names permanent ANZ leader

He knows plenty about the role, having served as interim Managing Director for six months, now this leader has officially landed the top job, providing certainty for the pharma as it navigates a changing reimbursement landscape

Sales, Marketing & Public Relations

What doctors really want Reps to talk about

More than four in 10 clinicians say conversations with reps are mostly about products but what they'd really like to discuss is this...

Leadership & People

Country boss adds new leadership hat

AstraZeneca leader joins board to promote trade between Europe and Australia bolstering collaboration, innovation and investment

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Regulatory & Reimbursement

Drugs dropped from PBAC meeting

Three drugs were removed and another added in a last-minute revision to the agenda for the PBAC's last three-day meeting for 2026

Industry & Companies

Pharma sells off Aussie business

This company will now be a specialty pharma focused on the United States with its Australian assets moving to new hands for $55M

Patients

Omico names genomic profiling partners

Four organisations have been selected to provide comprehensive genomic profiling for 25,000 Australians in the next phase of this screening program

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