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==History== ME/CFS Australia Ltd was founded in 1999.<ref name="website" /> The organisation was originally located in offices Melbourne, Victoria. The organisation was created for the purpose of providing peak body representation on the national stage. In the early years of its operations, the organisation was actively involved in advocacy for patients with ME/CFS. In [https://web.archive.org/web/20170222010512/http://ahmf.org/98access/98conf.html 1998], [https://web.archive.org/web/20170222005732/http://ahmf.org/99access/99conf.html 1999] and [http://ahmf.org/01access/01conf.html 2001] the organisation was actively involved, along with the [[Alison Hunter Memorial Foundation]], with the three Sydney/Newcastle based International Clinical and Scientific Meetings. The Chair, Simon Molesworth, was actively involved in advocating against the 1997 Draft RACP CFS Guidelines and 2002 RACP CFS Guidelines.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.mecfsfmq.org.au/reference.html | title = ME/CFS/FM Reference | website = ME/CFS/FM Support Association QLD Inc|access-date=2022-06-14}}</ref> Between 2014 and 2016, ME/CFS Australia's operations wound back. In 2016 a new board came forward and have revitalised and refocused the organisation to focus on its core objectives of advocacy, education and research. In recent years the organisation has been involved in such activities as the NHMRC ME/CFS Advisory Committee Report to the CEO<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nhmrc.gov.au/about-us/publications/mecfs-advisory-committee-report-nhmrc-chief-executive-officer | title = ME/CFS Advisory Committee Report to NHMRC Chief Executive Officer | website = NHMRC|access-date=2022-06-14}}</ref> and as a member of the Independent Advisory Group reviewing the Cochrane review of Graded Exercise and ME/CFS.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://community.cochrane.org/independent-advisory-group-iag-biographies-and-declarations-interest-june-2021 | title = Independent Advisory Group (IAG): biographies and declarations of interest (June 2021)|website=Cochrane|language=en|access-date=2022-06-14}}</ref> Member organisation, ME/CFS Australia (SA), submitted a targeted call for research to the NHMRC in 2016 which subsequently culminated in $3 million being allocated to various researchers around Australia.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/MECFSSA/posts/pfbid0FNnJ74zCM3rcNoD2BhB6SeyvAom57oL2NF9nfEKACLp29AWahtouPPrjKr59zLpVl | title = ME/ CFS South Australia Inc | website = Facebook|language=en|access-date=2022-06-14}}</ref>
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