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2024 NT Year in Review
Your Flying Doctor exists to support healthier and happier Australians, no matter where they live, work or play. Check out our 2023/24 NT Year in Review.
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S. Kidman & Co renews multi-million-dollar jet partnership
23 May 2024RFDS SA/NT has announced that S. Kidman & Co, one of Australia’s largest beef producers, will continue as its 'Jet Partner' for another four years.
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Protecting a special pocket of Australia: Health care meets conservation
22 May 2024Stationed at the intersection of Australia’s three central deserts, the challenges of accessing health care loom large for Kalamurina Wildlife Sanctuary managers, couple Luke Playford and Dr Annemarie van Doorn.
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Australian-first virtual emergency centre to help save lives in the outback
01 May 2024The Royal Flying Doctor Service has opened its state-of-the-art health hub in the South Australian outback tourism town of William Creek that provides 24/7 emergency medical help with no health professionals physically on the ground.
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Meet the Flying Doctor's female pilots
10 Mar 2024To mark Women in Aviation Worldwide Week, we reached out to our female pilots to ask them what their job means to them. Here’s what they said...
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Sandy overcame a life-changing injury but that was only the beginning of the battle
21 Feb 2024Traumatic injuries can have long-lasting effects and for Ti Tree resident Sandy Abley, the Flying Doctor was there to support her full journey to physical and emotional recovery.
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A dry needle in the haystack: Meet our first Flying Physio
21 Feb 2024Armed with a portable treatment table and a backpack containing everything you’d find in a city clinic, the RFDS’s newest health professional is making tracks in the bush.
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A student placement with the RFDS led to Mick landing his dream job
20 Feb 2024Having grown up in the suburbs of Melbourne, working as a mental health clinician in the Central Desert of Australia is a whole new world for Mick Keane.
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