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Medicines Australia and the Western Desert Dialysis Truck
TweetThe Purple House’s (Western Desert Nganampa Walytja Palyantjaku Tjutaku) dialysis truck has been a long time coming. But the wait is worth it. Cross border issues with funding and the locations to...
View ArticlePneumovax 23 Update
TweetThe Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) has completed their investigation into the cluster of severe local injection site reactions in March 2011 that continued into April 2011. Advice was then...
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Thankyou for 2011. Happy New Year
TweetDuring the three years (and four months) of this blog I have been constantly surprised that people want to read what I write (2011 was not a good year to find time to write lengthy articles). I am...
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From 6 Foxtrot Lima Hotel to ADSL
TweetIt wasn’t long ago we had daily scheds to meet to make sure all was ok. Now in this part of the outback not only do we have telephones we even have ADSL.
View ArticleKungkaku Yungupalaku Healthy Relationships Project – a Improving Sexual...
TweetThese stories were developed and mostly filmed, animated by young people in Warburton and Warakurna. They have identified ways of health seeking, appropriate services, supporting each other,...
View ArticlePrime Minister Julia Gillard’s Closing the Gap Speech to Parliament 2012
TweetIt’s been a few months but in case you missed it here is the Prime Minister’s Closing the Gap speech delivered to Parliament on 9th February 2012. Following that is a copy of the report. 2011...
View ArticleNew Position: Bamaga Hospital Pharmacist
TweetA new position has been developed for a Senior Pharmacist at Bamaga Hospital at the tip of Cape York Peninsula. Working within the hospital and setting up and monitoring systems around the top of...
View ArticleNhulunbuy (Gove) Hospital Pharmacy Manager Required to Cover Maternity Leave
TweetYou know I only put up pharmacy job ads for remote areas or working primarily in Indigenous Health. This job fits both criteria. While Kara is off on maternity leave a pharmacist is required to...
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Decline in young male suicide hides rise in remote areas
TweetSuicide is more prevalent in remote Australia. The Conversation has run a couple of articles on it through the year. This is the first from 22 June 2012. This article written by Justin Norrie, The...
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Reducing Indigenous suicide through empowerment and pride
TweetThe second article on remote or Indigenous suicide published on The Conversation. article by Diego De Leo, Griffith University We’ve long known that rates of suicide in Indigenous communities are...
View ArticleKatherine West Health Board cultural orientation DVD
TweetThe Katherine West health Board have developed a cultural orientation DVD and placed it up on the web Our Story Part 1 Our Story Part 2 Working Together Part 1 Working Together Part 2 Working...
View ArticleIndigenous Interlude
TweetOne of my favourite singers after a stroke then having half a lung removed with cancer has released a new album. “Song to Sing”
View ArticleRemote Pharmacist Job in the Kimberley
TweetOccasionally I put up pharmacist wanted job adverts for positions working mainly with Indigenous Australians. Here’s one in the Kimberley. This job described below is at a new site within a remote...
View ArticleBulloo Shire Remote Health Service
TweetThargomindah is a small town in Western Queensland I used to pass through regularly as I travelled in and out of Innamincka many years ago. Thargomindah is within the Bulloo Shire. The have...
View ArticleEmergency and Retrieval Registrars required for Alice Springs Hospital in 2013
TweetIf you are interested in remote health and retrieval medicine think about coming to work in Alice Springs Hospital in 2013 Alice Springs Hospital Emergency and Retrieval Registrars
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The challenges of bush pharmacy
TweetA couple of weeks ago I had the Pharmacy Guild of Australia President George Tambassis and the Guild’s Communication Manager Greg Turnbull travel with me in remote Western Australia. Here is...
View ArticleGeorge Tambassis, Pharmacy Guild President interviews Robbo
TweetIf you follow the blog you would know the Pharmacy Guild President, George Tambassis, came and visited me a few weeks ago and he wrote this piece on The Challenges of Bush Pharmacy As well as that...
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A Pharmacy Student Placement Out Bush
TweetOver the last nearly ten years I have had a large number of students visit me out bush. They came from a mere week to a month or more. Unfortunately they never have time away from me, sharing my...
View ArticleRemote Pharmacist WA – A conversation between myself and the Pharmacy Guild...
TweetIn January 2015 the president of the Pharmacy Guild George Tambassis and his PR man Greg Turnbull came onto the lands to spend 5 days with me on the lands. George and I have known each other since...
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Ten questions for Robbo aka @BiteTheDust
TweetI drove off the lands on Boxing Day 2015 and stayed a couple of nights with Bob Gosford. For my sins he forced me to answer his 10 question quiz. The original post is here. My pet hate listed in...
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