Talk:Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia

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Rather than describing this as "an airborne medical service", I would like to call it what it is: an air ambulance. I haven't though because that page redirects to MEDEVAC, which deals only with military uses. T.P.K. 14:16, 2 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Maybe cut the redirect and write a stub explaining that? Ambi 15:03, 2 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Stubed up. T.P.K. 08:40, 3 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Contents 1 Two Articles and bits 2 Robin Miller Dicks 3 RFDS in Fiction 4 Trivia section 5 funding 6 Flynn

[edit] Two Articles and bits

(I'll levae these up for a month/all incorporation, and then remove, for fear of copyvio)

From Chronicles of the 20th Century (see User:ZayZayEM/Sources)

Flying Doctors wing across the outback

March 26, 1934 — The Flying Doctor service will be expanded from Queensland into Western Australia. The scheme will embrace the proposed medical aerial service at Port hedland, and other points will be covered later. The Commonwealth Government hopes to expand the service into Victoria, NSW and South Australia within the next few years. The service, begun in 1928 by the Australian Inland mission of teh Presbytarian Church. ,ade its first flight to Julia Creek, in central Queensland. A 50-watt transmitter was set up in teh vestry of the Cloncurry Presbytarian church, and pedal wirelesses were gradually ditributed to (cattle? -ZZ) stations and missions within transmitting distance of the base. In its first year the service flew 20,000 miles in 50 flights.

The inland Flynn's final resting place

May 23, 1951 &mdash In the shadows of Mt. Gillen, four miles from Alice Springs, John Flynn of the inland has been laid to rest. He died in Sydney 18 days ago (May 5 -ZZ). It was his wish that he be buried in the heart of the outback, to which he devoted the greater part of his life. In 1912 the Presbyterian Church sent Flynn to report on the conditions in the Northern Territory, and from that year he worked to improve people's lives there. Combining the spiritual with the practical, his Inland Mission established a system of "patrol padres", a radio network and, from 1928, the Flying Doctor Service, all of which have flourished.

Also:

• on the October 22, 1958, in Melbourne the RFDSA is given the 500,000th Holden (car/landvehicle?? -ZZ)
• November 9, 1968 in Central Australia, RFDSA amkes its 4000th flight, patient is a 3 y.o. Michelle Smith.

--ZayZayEM 12:46, 8 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Okay - I just hocked a lot of info from the website. And redid a lot of organisation. All the cool articles have snazzy section titles, but if you have soemthing better run it. Also I apologise for any typos and lack of wikilinks.--ZayZayEM 14:12, 14 Nov 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Robin Miller Dicks

1940-1975 a memorial at Jandakot airport is dedicated to her for the work she did with poliomylitis vaccinations. If can anyone expand on her life please add information to the Jandakot Airport discussion page thanks Gnangarra 17:13, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] RFDS in Fiction

Might be worth mentioning how the RFDS has turned up in a fair bit of Australian (pop-)culture. Two come to mind imediately, the RFDS TV soap (of which I'm surprised there's no wikipage set up already!) and the Flying Doc in Snake Tails comics. Anyone wanna have a go at it? I'm sure there is more to mention. Ghost 15:15, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Trivia section

I think that the Trivia section on this page should be moved to the article regarding Holden. Alexdan loghin 08:50, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] funding

The article claims that donations are still the mainstay of funding, but then later says that donations accounted for ~$2million of a total budget of $31million (rest from gov't). Inconsistent... are the numbers correct? Sewebster 23:09, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Flynn

The first sentence of the second par says: "Victorian Lieutenant Clifford Peel, had heard Flynn's public speeches..." This is the first time Flynn is mentioned in the article. There doesn't appear to be a wiki-page for Flynn. Can somebody who knows the history flesh this out properly? There's some good info here: http://www.flyingdoctor.net/Birth-of-an-Idea.html Paul Fisher (talk) 09:59, 12 May 2008 (UTC)