WEST AUSTRALIANA / AVIATION / BIOGRAPHY / MEDICAL / ABORIGINAL –
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
- Prev ownership on prelims
- Contemprary innserted newspaper articles
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