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The former health minister, who also served as Minister for Defence, Minister for Immigration and Border Protection, and Minister for Home Affairs in successive Coalition governments, has replaced former director Stewart Morland as of last month.
Replacing the ageing base first opened in 1988, the new hub – which will include clinical facilities, space for fixed-wing and rotary aircraft, ground vehicle transport, and room for surge workers – is backed by $15 million from the Commonwealth and $6 million from the Tasmanian government.
Mount Isa hosted more than 2,300 RFDS flights and transported over 1,000 patients in the 2023/24 financial year, and the new facility replaces the aircraft hangar in use since 1964.
The aeromedical services provider will build what it says are “the only full-suite Leonardo immersive simulation systems outside Italy” at its planned LifeFlight Clive Berghofer Training Academy, incorporating high-fidelity simulators and advanced training systems.
Jandakot’s new DFES Aviation Facility, expected to open by September next year, will bring WA’s Emergency Rescue Helicopter Service and Air Operations branches under one roof while supporting future growth in Department of Fire and Emergency Services aviation.
The 33 new critical care doctors, who will be deployed to the Darling Downs, Sunshine Coast, Wide-Bay Burnett, Maranoa, North Queensland and Brisbane regions, have undergone “a week of intensive aeromedical training” at Brisbane Airport’s LifeFlight Training Academy.
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