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Meet the oldest Air Ambulance Nurse in Australia

Meet the oldest Air Ambulance Nurse in Australia

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Maureen Roberts has many career highlights to share from her 32 years as Australia’s longest serving air ambulance nurse.

In a recent interview on Macquarie Media, Maureen told the story of the pilot of her aircraft passing out at the controls and how she calmly popped his oxygen mask on and brought him around enough to land the plane. And you thought your job had challenges!

Maureen began her career in the Riverina and became interested in the Air Ambulance are speaking to a fellow nurse from the service. She started her career in Albury but is now based at Mascot, near Sydney.

Another memorable moment of her career involved a premature baby in the skies over the Hunter Valley in NSW. The Air Ambulance needed to land but a FA18 Hornet on “critical fuel” took precedence. Maureen remembers saying to the Air Ambulance pilot “the fighter pilot can eject if he needs to but we can’t, we need to land”!

One of the wonderful things about her job, Maureen told us, is that every day is a different experience depending on the patients you're transporting.

“Sometimes you're taking people home to die and they know they're going to die and they have the most amazing conversations with you."

Hear the full interview with Maureen Roberts here

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Ian from NSW commented:

This will not effect us but I think it is disgusting. For the people who have tried and through no fault of their own just based on the huge rise in property values they suddenly have to up and move away from their homes and friends because you will have to move for the cost of a house to come down. Once again those how provide for themselves get hit. Maybe we all should have rented and gone on welfare! 

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Jane, it's politics that runs the country and makes the decisions that effect all of our lives. It's vital that these things be discussed. 

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Obviously you either don't own a home or it is not worth a Mil? I must admit I get tired of do gooders (not saying you are one) happily giving away my hard-earned but doing little to advance the country themselves... 

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Jane from WA commented:

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Ha! chance would be a fine thing if we qualified for any sort of pension/part pension. As self-funded retirees we are almost the forgotten people! 

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Can we please get a group discount offer on private health cover. Or at least a recommended health cover provider. The costs of comprehensive health cover are spiraling out of control. 

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Someone from NSW commented:

Absolutely not. What was the reason we worked hard and saved hard, rearing children to have this happen. We voted Liberal, and felt this was the best. maybe not???? 

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Someone from NSW commented:

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Rhonda from NSW commented:

I am a current Liberal Voter, but if the Coalition even thinks of including the family home as part of an assets test I would not vote for them and be very disappointed. My husband and I have worked very hard and have raised and educated 3 children without any help from government. Now we are retired and have a very small super. We rely on the pension. We have paid taxes since we were15. We have private health cover at great expense to us. Our home should be left out of any asset test 

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Someone from NSW commented:

We live in rural NSW and have ever only had a three day mail service, there are no problems with this 

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