A photographic display which captures John Flynn’s vision for the heart of the nation and how it became a reality opens at the National Library of Australia in Canberra today, Friday, 10 August. One of Flynn’s photos to go on display: three AIM nurses with seven newborn babiesRunning for one year, the display, Beyond the Furthest Fences: …

Overcoming the disadvantage faced by people living in remote communities will take courage and innovation, Frontier Services’ Kate Higginbotham told Isolated Children’s Parents’ Association 41st Annual Conference in Griffith today. Jane Morton, who was a nurse at the Frontier Services Birdsville Hospital from 1979-81, visited the Frontier Services stall at the ICPA conference in GriffithMs Higginbotham spoke …

More than 50 volunteers from the Halikos Group rolled up their sleeves and blitzed the Frontier Services Respite Options for Senior Territorians (ROST) All the volunteers at the Halikos Group working beecentre in Darwin on Sunday, 29 July. Community Care Manager Pauline Wardle said the volunteers, which included a whole soccer team from the Darwin …

The South Australian Frontier Services Support team held a celebration on 29 July 2012 at the Adelaide West Uniting Church to celebrate Frontier Services and 100 years of support for the people of remote Australia. A booklet of history entitled ‘Then and Now’, compiled by the South Australian Support Team was launched by Rosemary Young, …

CHURCH MARKS CENTENARY OF OUTBACK CARE.   ABC News: July 18, 2012.   The Uniting Church is marking a century of outback work by its caring network, now known as Frontier Services. A national church meeting in Adelaide has discussed the need for a continuing commitment to outback care and community services… Read full article. 

STUDENTS TO GET TASTE OF RED CENTRE.   ABC News: June 18 2012.   Eight high school students from the New South Wales central coast are beginning a week-long educational experience in Alice Springs. The national director of Frontier Services says the trip has been organised to celebrate the centenary of the Australian Inland Mission, …

I was appointed to birdsville Hospital with the AIM in the 1970s. It was an amazing experience which I hold in my heart forever. Later I married a farmer and, after we lost our farm, we again served with Frontier services for 4 years at The Monument. 25 years ago I gave birth to my …

Judy Williams has created a blog containing transcripts of the diaries of her Father, Howard Kettle, called ‘Hey Jude – Outback Travels of my Father… 1929 – 1935.   Howard was a Patrol Padre with the Methodist Inland Mission, now the Uniting Church in Australia Frontier Services, based in Camooweal in Queensland. The blog allows …

‘A man and a truck’, a colour documentary produced in 1956, explores the work of the Australian Inland Mission patrol padres. The film follows the journey of a new patrol padre, Rev. Colin Ford and his wife, as they travel from the Australian Inland Mission headquarters in Sydney to the tip of Cape York Peninsular. 

In the heart of the Outback, Rev John Dihm brings ‘church’ to people in the bush. Around a scarred wooden table, Reverend John Dihm with a property owner, his wife and two station hands are breaking bread together. A radio plays in the background. There’s no wine because it’s just gone midday, but the little …