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#87 How did Gayle lose the use of both arms in a farm-accident?

19 Apr 2024

After Gayle's life-changing accident on a remote cattle station in Queensland, they have had to adapt to a new life, despite one arm being amputated and the other being paralysed

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Better Ageing with RFDS Victoria

29 Oct 2020

RFDS Victoria has been the beneficiary of a portion of funding from the Australian Sports Commission, awarded to RFDS Australia, to create and run a National Rural and Remote Active Ageing Program.

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RFDS (Queensland Section) secure new 10-year inter-hospital transfer partnership

Queensland Government signs new partnership with Royal Flying Doctor Service

27 Oct 2020

The Queensland Government has secured world-class aeromedical care for Queenslanders through a new 10-year inter-hospital transfer partnership with the Royal Flying Doctor Service (Queensland Section) (RFDS).

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RFDS (Queensland Section) Pilot Mick Porfiri in the flight simulator

New RFDS pilots complete simulator training

23 Oct 2020

Eight new Royal Flying Doctor Service (Queensland Section) (RFDS) pilots, five of whom were displaced from commercial airlines during the pandemic, have now completed simulator training on the Sunshine Coast.

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Senex $1m support to Royal Flying Doctor Service

23 Oct 2020

Senex Energy has extended its total commitment to the Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS) Central Operations to $1 million with a further three-year major sponsorship.

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Flying across a pandemic to save lives

22 Oct 2020

As Australians began grappling with the COVID-19 pandemic shutting down the nation earlier this year, the RFDS donned protective masks and kept in the air to save lives.

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Supporting our communities

22 Oct 2020

When the COVID pandemic grounded commercial flights earlier this year, the Flying Doctor stepped up to transport patients, medical specialists, pathology tests throughout Australia's central corridor.

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Flying Doctor supports sobriety

22 Oct 2020

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Funds mined for the Flying Doctor

21 Oct 2020

Goldfields mining company Topdrill hosted a fundraising event for the RFDS as the movers and shakers of the resources sector gathered in Kalgoorlie on the eve of Diggers and Dealers 2020.

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What if there was no help?

20 Oct 2020

Jed was helping muster sheep on a friend’s property when he came off his motorbike, fracturing his wrist and shattering his ankle.

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Education tour lands in Tasmania

16 Oct 2020

The Royal Flying Doctor Service Look! Up in the Sky (LUITS) educational program has been embraced by Tasmanian schools in a year largely devoid of special activities and is set to spread its wings from Monday, October 19 to November 13 with 68 sessions booked at 14 schools statewide.

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Flying Doctor teams unite

15 Oct 2020

The significant disruptions to ‘business as normal’, paired with increased pressure on some teams, has meant that RFDS Victoria’s staff has needed to be flexible in meeting the needs of the organisation in 2020.

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Launch of face-to-face fundraising

14 Oct 2020

The Royal Flying Doctor Service (Queensland Section) has this week launched its face-to-face fundraising campaign.

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The full reach of Flying Doctor care

14 Oct 2020

For a pregnant, first time mother moving to remote north west Queensland, the importance of the Royal Flying Doctor Service (Queensland Section) (RFDS) could not have been more evident for Ebony Robertson.

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Flying Doctor donation kiosk lands in Kalgoorlie

14 Oct 2020

A new roving Flying Doctor donation kiosk is expected to turn heads of travellers and their loved ones at the Kalgoorlie-Boulder Regional Airport over the next month.

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Message from the President RFDS South Eastern

13 Oct 2020

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