Big Help Provided

Earbus Foundation of WA is excited to welcome BHP as a major sponsor of our work in Aboriginal communities in the Pilbara, providing operational and capital funding. BHP funding allows Earbus Foundation to deliver Outreach Programs into the township of Newman and the remote Aboriginal community of Jigalong in the southern Pilbara region. The Outreach Program will deliver monthly Clinical visits to the schools in the region and deploy a fully-equipped customised Earbus that will be permanently located in Newman township.

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Meet Catherine Zeevaarder

Originally from Melbourne, where her family still lives, Catherine spent many years nursing in Victoria and South Australia and arrived in Perth this year. She started nursing at the time of the HIV/AIDs epidemic in Australia and this led her into infectious disease nursing. Since then she has worked in Infection Prevention and Control, Travel Health and Aboriginal Health. She is interested in the prevention of infections and diseases in Australia and worldwide.

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State of the Ears

Earbus Foundation of WA is excited to present State of the Ears, a unique and detailed data snapshot from six years of working across regional and remote WA. The live presentation will feature three keynote speakers and an invited audience at the State Theatre Centre in Northbridge on 15th September.

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Our Thanks to Steadfast Foundation

Steadfast Foundation has generously committed to supporting our East Pilbara Earbus program for the next three years which allows us to maintain a full roster of visits to communities and towns across the region. Steadfast is Australasia’s largest general insurance broker network with 473 insurance brokerages across Australia and New Zealand

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Meet Kassy Hayden

My family comes from a town called Merredin. I grew up on a huge farm called ‘Dalmahoy’ on the outskirts of a small country town -Westonia. It was here as a child that I discovered my love for the land and the culture around me.

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We Go To Rio...

Our new South Pilbara program serving the townships of Tom Price and Paraburdoo and the communities of Wakathuni and Bellary Springs is now being funded by Rio Tinto. We are excited to partner with Rio to put a customised and fully equipped new Earbus into the region along with multi-year funding to ensure program continuity. Despite interruptions caused by Covid-19 we have already done 2 visits to local schools and communities and have follow-up visits re- commencing in July.

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Meet Dr Carol Dowling

Dr Carol Dowling is Earbus Foundation’s newly appointed Director of Research. Carol is a Badimaya/Yamatji woman with a Ph D in Social Sciences and a Masters in Indigenous Research and Development. Her research focuses on the impact of colonialisation upon five generations of women in her family

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