Let’s soar together! Help me raise funds to keep the Flying Doctor flying.
Help keep the Flying Doctor flying! I’m raising funds so the Royal Flying Doctor Service can respond at a moment’s notice for people living, working, and travelling in remote, rural and regional areas in Australia.
Last year alone, the RFDS reached more than 330,000 Australians with 24-hour emergency retrieval and primary health care. That’s one person every two minutes!
The Flying Doctor is always on call to help and save lives, and that’s why I’m asking you to chip in to and help the RFDS to provide the finest care to the furthest corner.
Go on. Please donate now towards my fundraiser, and let’s see how high our tally can fly.
Why I'm Supporting the Flying Doctor
For 90 years, the Royal Flying Doctor Service (South Eastern Section) has been a lifeline for the people of outback and regional NSW; the same people I proudly represent every day in Parliament.
Barwon is an extraordinary electorate. At 356,292 square kilometres, it covers 44.5% of New South Wales, in some towns there are no GPs, and there are few places where women can reliably give birth,life expectancy is lower here than in regional NSW, and it is exactly the kind of place that inspired Reverend John Flynn to create the RFDS back in 1928, and it is exactly the kind of place the RFDS continues to serve every single day. In fact, 52% of all RFDS services in New South Wales are delivered right here in Barwon.
The RFDS does fantastic work in Barwon, and more widely across the West and Far West of NSW; building the infrastructure, recruiting the staff, and reaching the most remote corners of our state. And they do it extraordinarily well, transforming health outcomes for the communities I call home.
This April, I'm honoured to be driving a leg of the Lighting the Way Flare Relay, a journey from Sydney to Broken Hill, stopping along the way in communities that know firsthand just how vital the RFDS is. Through this journey, I’ll be celebrating nine decades of this uniquely Australian, iconic institution and shine a light on the vital work that must continue for the next hundred years.
By donating to my fundraising page, you're directly supporting the RFDS to keep delivering world-class healthcare to the people who need it most, no matter where they live, no matter how far from care.
Please donate today and help us light the way for the next 90 years.
My impact
So far, my fundraising could help…
Provide a full range of life saving medication such as sedatives, pain relief and antibiotics so the Flying Doctor can be ready for 111 emergency situations.
Send 57 life saving-medical chest to remote communities
Provide one on one counselling to 35 outback Australians during a difficult time
Purchase 23 pieces of equipment that could include ventilators, defibrillators and infusion pumps which are used on board flights
Thank you to my supporters
$423.60
Pete Rothwell
$267.25
Jo Miller
Good job Roy stay safe
$169.07
Rowan Sollars
$169.07
Sharon
$169.07
Jodie
Everyone deserves accessible healthcare wherever they live. For every little and every big life saved in those planes ♥️
$169.07
Anonymous
$169.07
Ness, Ayden & Cooper
I have many stories to tell you about how much the RFD is needed way out here in outback,. Here’s 1 of them - On a quiet day in March 2004 A 23yr pregnant mother arrives at the local hospital with signs of a massive placenta haemorrhage.. The hospital is unable to provide her and her un born child with the medical treatment needed to save their Life’s.. So they call for help.. 651 kilometres away The RFD get that call and thanks to he RFD mother & child are saved… My son Ayden is alive today because of the RFD & this is our way to thank them & to get the message out about how badly needed out here on the western outback planes.
$169.07
Thomas Christy
$125.22
Anonymous
Topped up to make the target. Hopefully, the $$$ continue to rise.
$108.24
Stephen Larsson
Good luck Roy. Watch out for the kangaroos!!
$108.24
Fiona Toose
Ride like the wind for a great cause!
$108.24
Revio Cyber Security
$108.24
Anonymous
A great cause. Huge commitment for Roy and Team! Love how you look after all of Barwon and neighbours. Congrats.
$108.24
Marg
Great work Roy 👏
$108.24
June Lake
Go for Gold Son, you are amazing in your achievements and I am extremely proud of you. I’m confident you will reach your goal! Bravo Zulu!!
$108.24
Margaret Thomson
$108.24
Liz And Gary Murray
Good on ya Roy. The RFDS are very dear to our hearts having saved our son many moons ago ( and retrieved my husband a few times). Cheers.
$106.12
[email protected] Traill
$70.62
Trudy Craig
What a wonderful effort for such a worth cause Roy!
$69.58
Kylie John And Xander Mckenzie
Can't wait to see the travels! Have a great time for a great cause
$69.58
Vision Tv
Good on ya mate!
$69.58
David Kirby
$64
Allan & Anne Rice
Congratulations Roy a worthy cause. Safe ride to you all.
$54.84
Louise Taylor
$54.84
Andrew M
Great work and a great cause Roy
$54.84
Netty
All the best Roy !! 👍
$54.84
Anonymous
Well done!!
$53.64
Frances Carpenter
$37.15
Patricia Mcdonald
Well done.
$37.15
Chad Watson
$37.15
Tom Christy
$33.87
Maree
$33
Anonymous
$33
Gregory Coleman
$23.50
Prudence Holgate
$10
Great work mate!