By Jessica Micallef
Marion Rivers is hoping her Australia Day Honours award brings more attention to the orthoptics industry.
The Gisborne South resident has been made a member in the general division of the Order of Australia in this year’s Australia Day Honours list.
Marion started her journey to becoming an orthoptist at the Sydney Eye Hospital in 1966, where she studied for two years.
From then, she became a member at the Orthoptic Association of Australia, now known as Orthoptics Australia.
“Orthoptists specialise in eye physiology and the movement of eyes and how eyes work,” Marion, 72, said.
“We do a lot of investigation on people who had some sort of head injury or catastrophic injury that causes their eye movements to be disrupted.”