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My name is Robyn Williams and I have
lived and worked in the Northern
Territory for the better part of 35 years.
I first went to Darwin to do my nursing
training over 35 years ago, because I had
an interesting but useless Arts Degree,
and I didn’t want to be an Anthropologist,
still don’t. I wanted to do something that
was both practical and useful, being a third
generation do -gooder, and that seemed
to be the best and quickest way to do it.
In those days, Nurses were the main work
force apart from the Aboriginal Health
Care workers. So I did that for a few years,
came back into Darwin to do my Graduate
Diploma of Education, went back out
bush teaching, then combined both
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of those at what was Bachelor College
teaching Aboriginal Health Workers,
writing the original Aboriginal Health
Workers courses and teaching those for
a few years. So, it all came together like
some grand plan but, wasn’t actually.
I think it was also a matter of
knowing what I didn’t want to do
but broadly where I was working.
So, I’m now coordinating the Bachelor
of Health Sciences at Charles Darwin
University and again, that’s another nice
amalgamation of my experiences from
my time, and one of those units is Rural
and Remote Health which I just love.