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Vale Dame Marie Bashir

Vale Professor The Honourable Dame Marie Bashir

21 Jan 2026

The Royal Flying Doctor Service is deeply saddened by the passing of Dame Marie Bashir. Dame Marie Bashir served as joint Patron of the RFDS South Eastern Section with her husband, the late Sir Nicholas Shehadie, during her term as Governor of New South Wales from 2001 to 2014.

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06 Apr 2022

A growing service. More patient transportation from our Bankstown base

The Flying Doctor makes it easier for patients to get between regional NSW and Sydney.

Bankstown Base
06 Apr 2022

Outback Car Trek back on the road to raise funds

Organisers have announced where the Outback Car Trek is headed in 2022.

Outback Car trek
06 Apr 2022

Festival will once again rock the outback

As one Mundi Mundi Bash comes to fruition, we are excitedly preparing for the next outback festival in just a few months’ time

Mundi Mundi Music Festival
06 Apr 2022

Anna overcomes fear with Flying Doctor

Going into labour and needing to be flown to hospital wasn’t part of the plan for a quiet weekend away.

Anna holding her baby
21 Mar 2022

Newest recruits complete induction training

Our newest doctors spent a day treating simulated patients in scenario-based exercises.

training, aimed to swiftly educate them on clinical information, terrains, conditions and patients they may be working with.
14 Mar 2022

Flying Doctor continues its integral role in the national COVID vaccination rollout

The Flying Doctor has been helping safeguard families against COVID by providing adults and children with their vaccinations.

Locations for these vaccination clinics have been widespread.
21 Feb 2022

Mundi Mundi Bash will support the Flying Doctor

The Mundi Mundi Bash is set to rock the outback over three jam-packed days in April 2022, and all proceeds raised from the event will be donated to the Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS).

The Mundi Mundi Bash will be held in April and August
19 Jan 2022

RFDSSE President Alex Scamps Message

The beginning of every new year brings with it the hope for a fresh beginning, a feeling of optimism that we can walk a fresh path in the year ahead, strengthened by all we have learned in the preceding year.

President Alex Scamps