Maree McTaggart

I've always been passionate about improving access to hearing services for regional and rural people and their families.

I completed a Science Degree at Newcastle University with a double major in Psychology and Management. The following year in 1993 I completed the Post Graduate Diploma of Audiology at Macquarie University in Sydney.

I worked for Australian Hearing Services (now Hearing Australia) in Newcastle in various roles, including Paediatric Specialist Audiologist and District Manager.

During this time I successfully championed the opening of a centre in Maitland.

Soon after the Sydney Cochlear Implant Centre (SCIC) was opened in Newcastle I was approached to join the team. I worked there for almost 18 years until opening my own Cochlear Implant Services business in Newcastle and Tamworth in 2026.