News and Blogs

For Victorian's our current restrictions end on Thursday 21st October 11.59pm as we reach 70% vaccination rate. Reopening for our industry will happen this Friday 22nd October, and here are all the details you need to know to get back to work, and open your business - including a tailored template for your Covid safe plan, posters and reopening guidelines.

In NSW it is now required that personal services, beauty & aesthetics to complete a COVID-19 Safety Plan. We have created an industry specific example for you to follow and tailor to your business.

There have been many questions and uncertainty surrounding the Covid-19 Vaccine Requirements and Exemptions, we answer some of the most pressing in this blog.

Navigating the plethora of seemingly conflicting information can be challenging, confusing and emotionally taxing. In this blog you will find summarised information based on our current understanding of government communication, plus you will see all the answers we are still waiting on!

The ‘Mastering Your Financials’ series has been created to help businesses learn how to achieve financial freedom and grow their profitability with practical, hands-on advice from industry experts. One episode every week LIVE on Facebook.

By Mala McAlpin It’s been a rough few months. As a Sydney-based Beauty Therapist and a student Dermal Clinician, I have desperately missed practicing my skills, offering my beloved facial routines to clients, and helping to solve the riddles of my clients’ skin mysteries with product diagnosis and coming up with treatment plans...

Coinciding with ASDC’s 21st birthday, this year we will also be celebrating what we hope to be an annual event over years to come - introducing National Dermal Clinicians Day! October 1st, 2021 will mark the official launch of what we hope to be an industry-wide celebration of Dermal Clinicians and Dermal Therapists around the country, with businesses and individuals alike taking a moment to acknowledge the achievements of formally-qualified dermal practitioners.

Read about the correspondence, requests and questions put forward to the Government by ABIC on behalf of the Beauty and Aesthetic industry.

To assist clinics during this current crisis the option to subscribe for Elite+ and EliteIQ machines is now being offered to salons who don't have the capital to buy equipment.

We have compiled a list of current funding and support packages available in Victoria and New South Wales.

The Fair Work Ombudsman updated its guidance on COVID vaccinations in the workplace, including the question of whether employers can make vaccinations mandatory.

The Australian Government is providing enhanced support for Australian people and businesses affected by the current lockdown. In this article you will find a summary dated 19/7/21.

APPLICATIONS FOR SUPPORT ARE TEMPORARILY CLOSED AT THIS TIME UNTIL WE ARE ABLE TO RECIEVE MORE FUNDS AND DONATIONS If you are in a Covid lockdown we can help you with a $100 Coles Voucher. If you are a qualified aesthetic professional, or clinic owner you can apply!

Greater Sydney including the Blue Mountains, Central Coast and Wollongong will be required to go into Covid lockdown, which means aesthetic and beauty businesses will be subject to the closure. Find vital information and business documents here. we are here to support you.

The Victorian Government is providing $2,500 grants for eligible employing and non-employing Aesthetic and Beauty businesses that cannot operate under the circuit breaker restrictions and which cannot work remotely.

In a Victorian press release it was announced that hair and beauty businesses will be required to go into Covid lockdown from 27th May 2021. We have all the important information and details in this article for you. You can also call 1800 MYABIC (1800 692 242) to speak with one of our facilitators regarding how this could impact you and your business.