CHAIR

Graduated from Charleville Hospital as an RN in 1979. She married and lived on a remote sheep station in the Wyandra area of SWQ (MMM7), until she & her husband relocated to Morven (MMM7) in 2001. A published storyteller, Annabelle has written several books (Penguin Australia), four of them about health professionals who live/work in rural/remote Australia. In 2018, Annabelle was appointed to the board of the Australian College of Rural & Remote Medicine (ACRRM) as their first Community Director and, before her retirement, assisted ACRRM in establishing its Community Reference Group. She is committed to ensuring ‘community’ is involved in the decisions that impact them.

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Nominations are now open for board positions at the RAM AGM.

DIRECTOR

Lives on Wyndham Station on the Anabranch River in far SW NSW, between Broken Hill and Wentworth (MMM6). He and his wife Kelly are regenerative farming advocates who graze sheep and cattle, who are building a goat enterprise to add to their diversity. Gus is passionate about their community and the environment and firmly believes that equitable access to appropriate primary health care is integral to the sustainability of both. He says, ‘We need more people living in remote Australia to care for our wonderful and unique landscape.’

DIRECTOR

Chair of the Community Health Infrastructure and Resilience Fund (CHIRF), which formed in 2016, to find doctors for the ailing private clinic at Mallacoota (MMM6) in far NE Victoria. An ANU graduate, he is a former Senior Commonwealth Public Servant who advised Ministers across a broad range of industries, regulating, and representing Australia in various international forums. Robin and his wife recently moved from Mallacoota to Brisbane but maintain a close relationship with the community through CHIRF and their friends.

DIRECTOR

Lives in Albury in NSW - not remote. However, he is a Chartered Accountant whose clients are predominantly GPs in rural and remote Australia. He not only does traditional type accounting/tax work for his GP clients, but also helps them/their communities develop viable/sustainable models of medical practice to help keep them practicing in their towns. He travels regularly to rural/remote communities to work through the issues and modelling. He knows well that all communities are different, and that one size does not fit all.