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Mundi Mundi Bash

Music, community and outback spirit unite at the 2025 Mundi Mundi Bash

28 Aug 2025

The 2025 Mundi Mundi Bash has once again demonstrated the extraordinary power of community spirit in supporting vital healthcare services across rural and remote Australia, with thousands of festival-goers rallying behind the Royal Flying Doctor Service South Eastern Section (RFDSSE).

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22 Apr 2020

Generous gift ensures continued healthcare delivery for north West Queensland

The Royal Flying Doctor Service will be even better equipped to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic in north west Queensland after mining and metals company, South32, donated $100,000 to the Flying Doctor in Mount Isa.

22 Apr 2020

Meet our staff - Neil Taylor

Neil Taylor is a Line Pilot, based in Broken Hill.

Neil Taylor
22 Apr 2020

AirBP Donates Much-Needed N95 Masks to the Flying Doctor

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, AirBP have gone over and above their partnership agreement and have donated 35,000 N95 masks to the RFDS PPE stockpile.

22 Apr 2020

Peter de Cure appointed RFDS Central Operations Chairman

Peter de Cure is the new Chairman of Royal Flying Doctor Service Central Operations (serving SA/NT), endorsed by resolution of fellow Directors at the April Board Meeting.

20 Apr 2020

$38m injection for RFDS rural COVID-19 response

Federal Government announces funding for to increase capacity for the RFDS to response to COVID surge needs.

Federal funding agreement
17 Apr 2020

Spot the difference on old and new Australian $20 note

Great pick up by an eagle-eyed Western Australian who noticed the call-signs on Flying Doctor aircraft featuring on the old and new Australian $20 note are different. Blunder or not? We get down to the bottom of the mystery!

Back of an RFDS aircraft
15 Apr 2020

COVID-19

13 Apr 2020

A tourist flight of a lifesaving kind

When her dad had a widowmaker heart attack on a family holiday in Broome, daughter Bryony was inspired by the work of the RFDS and promised her 12 year old self she would support the organisation in anyway way she could.

11 Apr 2020

Mrs Gina Rinehart and the Rinehart Medical Foundation donate $6 million to the Flying Doctor

The Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia (RFDS) has received a $6 million donation from Mrs Gina Rinehart and the Rinehart Medical Foundation to boost its inherent capability to respond to the emergency and primary health care needs of rural and remote Australians.