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Our Favourites: #47 A speeding boat full of tourists collides with a rock wall in remote WA...

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Aug 13, 202549:32Society & Culture

Dr Sally Edmonds talks of the RFDS response to the severe boat accident that occurred in May 2022 in the remote location of Horizontal Falls - where there was no access by road and some 26 patients had to be transported...

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