With extensive flooding across the region, the Frontier Services Remote Area Families Service (RAFS) in Longreach is doing everything possible to assist isolated families. RAFS, which provides early childhood advice and support for families with young children in remote areas, has been contacting community members and sending kits containing games and activities to flood-isolated families.   …

With extensive flooding across the region, the Frontier Services Remote Area Families Service (RAFS) in Longreach is doing everything possible to assist isolated families. RAFS, which provides early childhood advice and support for families with young children in remote areas, has been contacting community members and sending kits containing games and activities to flood-isolated families.   …

Rev Bruce Gallacher has traded in the green secluded valleys and fresh water rivers of the Snowy River country in south-east Victoria to take up his new post in the hot, vast, rugged country of the Kimberley. This week, Bruce was formally inducted as the new Frontier Services Kimberley Patrol Minister, based out of Kununurra. Travelling …

Frontier Services officially opened the new Kununurra Community Care building today with a special celebration for the community. The new building, which cost more than $1.7million, is used to provide a range of community care and respite programs for people living in and around Kununurra. “We are delighted to be celebrating the opening of the …

AIM HOSPITALS CIRCA 1960s An extract written by Pat McPhersonfor the Kimberley Nurses History Group Conference, Broome March 2000   ABSTRACT It is 1960. Australia is just 25 years off its bi-centenary; a modern nation for modern times, enjoying the last of the long, post-war economic boom. The Kimberley however, is only 80 years old …

Frontier Services, the largest provider of aged and community care in remote Australia, is delighted to welcome Phil Burgess to its team in the NT. As the new Business Manager for NT, Mr Burgess will play an important role in supporting the strategic operations of Frontier Services’ remote aged and community care services. Mr Burgess …

Frontier Services staff in Charleville have worked around the clock to assist the community with emergency measures since floodwaters struck the town last week. Burke and Wills Patrol Minister John Case, a volunteer with the State Emergency Service (SES), has spent four days ferrying stranded residents stuck on the other side of the Warrego River …

NURSING WITH THE AUSTRALIAN INLAND MISSIONAT HALLS CREEK, W.A., 1946-48  by (Mrs) D. F. Andrew (formerly Sister Dulcie Peel) I was born at Geelong and lived with my parents, sister and two brothers at Inverleigh, about 20 miles west of Geelong, Victoria, until I was 10 years old, and then moved to my father’s farm …

HEALTH MATTERS. Courtesy R.M. Williams OUTBACK Magazine, Feb/March 2012.  “Frontier Services has been operating around the outback for a century. With more than 700 staff, it works with people across 85 percent of the continent, in remote areas, with Aboriginal communities, on isolated properties and mining sites. It is the only organisation, public or private, providing services in aged care, health and …

Most people are lured to the Pilbara for the opportunity to work hard and earn big. Judy Knowling, however, was drawn to the remote North West in a very different way. Tiny-framed but enormously energetic, Judy came to the Pilbara nine years ago as a Frontier Services Patrol Minister to provide a source of practical …