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Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia - Australia's Culture Portal

Organisations such as the Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS) have been established to bring these important health services to remote and regional Australian communities. The Royal Flying Doctor Service provides free emergency and medical care to people w...

Australian civil aviation - Australia's Culture Portal

The Australian Flying Corps (AFC) was as influential on Australian civil aviation as it was on early Australian aviation. Two former AFC officers, Hudson Fysh and Paul McGinness, established what later became known as Qantas, with Fysh also supporting th...

Aviation museums - Australia's Culture Portal

Aviation has been very significant in Australia. As a country with large distances to cross and a sparse population, aviation was an ideal way to provide services such as mail, transport, medical support and goods supply. All around Australia, a large n...

Early Australian aviation - Australia's Culture Portal

Until the Second World War, Australia was one of the world's leaders in aviation in terms of both air mileage and prominent aviation pioneers. Since the early development of powered flight in Australia in 1910, various air services have been established:...

Charles 'Moth' Eaton - Australia's Culture Portal

Gp Capt Eaton Charles, CO RAAF Station Darwin. Image courtesy of the Charles Eaton Photographic Collection and Peter Dunn's Australia @ War. Eaton entered Australian aviation legend when commanding the air searches for two lost aircraft, the Kookaburra ...

Australian inventions - Australia's Culture Portal

Image courtesy of the Sydney Morning Herald. Lawrence Hargrave, who achieved the first powered flight in 1894 with four box kites, was said to be symbolic of many Australian inventors and Australian innovation; 'He was interested in the invention, not th...

Charles Kingsford Smith - Australia's Culture Portal

Unknown, Portrait of Sir Charles Edward Kingsford Smith, between 1919 and 1927. Sir Charles Kingsford Smith's love of excitement led to career as a pilot. Charles Kingsford Smith was born in Hamilton (a suburb of Brisbane), Queensland, in 1897. ...

The School of the Air and remote learning - Australia's Culture Portal

The answer is Community Government schooling and the School of the Air. School of the Air is one of the means by which children in remote communities can access schools. Alternatively, community schools provide an opportunity for children to attend scho...

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Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia   (more info)

Provides a history of the Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS), a charitable organisation providing an invaluable medical service to rural and remote Australia.

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Book - Australia's Flying Doctors: the Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia - Encyclopedia of Australian Science   (website Bright Sparcs )

The Encyclopedia of Australian Science brings together Bright Sparcs and Australian Science at Work. See the background page for more information. This site is still under construction and will be changing and improving in the coming months....

Edited Book - Western Wings of Care: a Personal Memoir of Aviation Development and Clinical Life with the Royal Flying Doctor Service in Outback Australia - Encyclopedia of Australian Science   (website Bright Sparcs )

The Encyclopedia of Australian Science brings together Bright Sparcs and Australian Science at Work. See the background page for more information. This site is still under construction and will be changing and improving in the coming months....

Journal Article - The Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia: its Foundation and Early Development - Encyclopedia of Australian Science   (website Bright Sparcs )

The Encyclopedia of Australian Science brings together Bright Sparcs and Australian Science at Work. See the background page for more information. This site is still under construction and will be changing and improving in the coming months....

Royal Flying Doctor Service - Corporate entry - Encyclopedia of Australian Science   (website Bright Sparcs )

Woldendorp, Richard, Australia's Flying Doctors: the Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia (Sydney: Pan Macmillan, 1994), 161 pp. , Western Wings of Care: a Personal Memoir of Aviation Development and Clinical Life with the Royal Flying Doctor Service...

Book - Outback Heroes: 75 Years of the Royal Flying Doctor Service - Encyclopedia of Australian Science   (website Bright Sparcs )

The Encyclopedia of Australian Science brings together Bright Sparcs and Australian Science at Work. See the background page for more information. This site is still under construction and will be changing and improving in the coming months....

Royal Flying Doctor Service - Attraction Search Detail - Northern Territory Official Travel Site   (website Northern Territory Visitors Centre NT )

The Royal Flying Doctor Service is an Australian icon and a world first. A visit to the Alice Springs base, originally built in 1939, will give you an insight into a uniquely Australian Service. buttons a { background-color: #cecece; color: #000; paddin...

Port Augusta Base | Royal Flying Doctor Service   (website Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia )

RFDS Central Operations state-of-the-art Communications Centre is located at Port Augusta, from which our Tasking Coordinators receive emergency calls, plan and assign all retrieval flights from Adelaide, Alice Springs and Port Augusta, whilst providing a...

Adelaide Base | Royal Flying Doctor Service   (website Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia )

Our Adelaide office acts to support the efficient functioning of the entire Central Operations activities by providing managerial, administrative and logistical support. The Adelaide Base and its team of pilots and flight nurses provide 24-hour emergency...

Tennant Creek General Practice | Royal Flying Doctor Service   (website Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia )

The Tennant Creek General Practice provides primary healthcare services to residents and visitors to Tennant Creek township and surrounding Barkly region. Its services include medical examinations and health screening, preventative health, antenatal serv...

Marree Health Service | Royal Flying Doctor Service   (website Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia )

You are here: Home > About Us > Our Bases > Our Bases - Central Operations > Marree Health Service The Marree Health Service provides a Registered Nurse outpatient service, home visiting service, referral service, short-stay facility and a 24-hour medical...

Alice Springs Base | Royal Flying Doctor Service   (website Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia )

The Alice Springs Base provides 24-hour primary emergency retrievals and interhospital transfers by our team of pilots, flight nurses and engineers. >> In Alice Springs, we also operate an award-winning Visitor Centre and Café which in 2008/09 attracted ...