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First edition. Daughter of Horrie Miller. Royal Flying Doctor Service.

Author recounts experience as aviator and nurse with Royal Flying Doctor Service; includes account of her involvement with the Sabin poliomyelitis vaccination programme in remote communities in northern West Australia during 1960’s; warm anecdotes of encounters with groups and individuals in various remote Aboriginal communities; chapter on visit to Don McLeod’s camp in the Wodjina Hills and revisiting stations pioneered by Durack family; Miller is Mary Durack’s daughter; nicknamed “Sugarbird Lady” by Aboriginal children during vaccination campaign.

• 220 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm.
• First Nations (AIATSIS) Subject:
  • Health – Vision / Blindness
  • History – Biographies – Non-Indigenous
  • Habitation – Camps
  • Health services – Emergency services – Air ambulances / Flying Doctor
  • Habitation – Nomadism
  • Health status – Immunisation
  • Occupations – Pastoral industry workers
  • Derby map area (WA West Kimberley SE51-07)
  • Carnarvon (WA South Pilbara / Gascoyne SG49-04)
  • Kimberley area (WA SD51, SD52, SE51, SE52)
  • Abydos (WA East Pilbara SF50-08)
  • Jigalong (WA East Pilbara SF51-13)
  • Pilbara area (WA SF50, SF51, SG50)
  • Port Hedland map area (WA East Pilbara SF50-04)
  • Wyndham (WA East Kimberley SD52-14)
  • Ord River / Lake Argyle (WA East Kimberley SE52-02, SD52-14)
  • Gibb River (WA East Kimberley SE52-01)
  • Balgo / Wirrimanu (Central WA Tanami Desert SF52-02)
  • Wodgina (WA East Pilbara SF50-08)
  • Miller, Robin, 1940-1975
  • Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia
  • Medical services. Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia. Nursing. Miller, Robin. Western Australia. Autobiographies
  • Aircraft. Flying. Miller, Robin.Autobiographies
  • Nursing — Australia
  • Rural health services — Australia
  • Health services — Australia

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