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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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25 Feb 2019

RFDS Western Operations fleet world-leader in aero medical services

The arrival of the second Rio Tinto LifeFlight PC-24 jet 'Kimberley' marks the completion of the RFDS Western Operations integrated fleet.

22 Feb 2019

Flynn flies on next generation $20 note

The Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS) is honoured to see its legacy continue on the next generation $20 banknote design revealed today by the Reserve Bank of Australia.

Twenty dollar note
21 Feb 2019

Flying Doctor visit saved my life

When Belinda went for a check-up at the Flying Doctor clinic in Tilpa she knew something wasn’t right. What she didn’t know was how that visit would save her life.

Belinda Bennet
20 Feb 2019

Life in the balance for baby Jenson

This tiny baby boy was born four months premature and a long way from home - but the RFDS provided special transportation.

20 Feb 2019

“I thought I had a blood nose… I needed emergency brain surgery!”

Brooke suffered multiple fractures to her skull, requiring emergency brain surgery over 2,000 kilometres away in Adelaide.

A young woman smiles. She is standing next to two horses.
19 Feb 2019

Telehealth limited by connectivity - Not technology

Telehealth is no new feat. The Flying Doctor has been doing it for over 90 years. Established with Alfred Trager’s pedal radio that connected those in the bush to a doctor, telehealth now forms the core of the RFDS service with 88,188 telehealth consultations delivered in the last year.

18 Feb 2019

Healthy Ageing in the Bush Requires a Coordinated Strategy

New Flying Doctor Research reveals thousands of remote Australians aged over 65 are flown by aeromedical teams to hospitals with illnesses that could have been prevented through increased country health services. A coordinated National Healthy Ageing Strategy is vital to improve health outcomes.

13 Feb 2019

Mobile Dental Unit Training session

On the 9th of November 2018, Corinne Millard, Nurse Educator from Rockhampton, delivered basic life support training at the mobile dental unit, based in Sapphire.

12 Feb 2019

Hobart office opened by Governor

We've spread our wings! View photos of the grand Hobart Office opening ceremony at Government House and meet our latest scholarship recipient and two terrific long-term donors.

07 Feb 2019

Queensland’s largest art exhibition spreads its wings with the Royal Flying Doctor Service

Queensland's largest and most prestigious art exhibition is spreading its wings with the Royal Flying Doctor Service (Queensland Section) to help raise funds for the state's field days.

05 Feb 2019

Roadstrip Retrieval

The Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS) is undertaking the aeromedical retrieval of a man following a motorcycle accident on the Eyre Highway

A RFDS Pilatus PC12 aircraft
01 Feb 2019

Service Planning and Operational Tool

As an Australian first, the RFDS use a Service Planning and Operational Tool called ‘SPOT’. SPOT is a custom made software, developed to assist the RFDS in planning where services should be located, relative to need. This is done by mapping existing services and overlaying these with population data

31 Jan 2019

A chat with Christopher Wallin

Queenslander Christopher Wallin supports the Royal Flying Doctor Service but he’s probably better known as a successful business man and the Managing Director of QCoal Group.

29 Jan 2019

Farmhand to Flying Doctor

The mail plane was small. It didn’t fill me with confidence – one engine, one pilot. But he was friendly and made me feel a little reassured. I was 15 years old and heading out to Abingdon Downs Station in gulf country Queensland, to visit my school friend Klancie, and ‘help’ with the mustering.