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Six hours west of Dubbo — Making injury management work in rural and remote Australia (Part 1)

Lauren Finestone

Injury management looks very different once you get ‘past the granite curtain’ — proper country, not metro or big regional centres.

Injury management looks very different once you get ‘past the granite curtain’. For the 7 million Australians living in rural and remote communities, geography still shapes injury and RTW outcomes: long trips to see a GP or specialist, limited local access to allied health, and higher travel and service costs that delay treatment. That was the message from a PIEF conference panel on servicing clients in those areas. The panel &mdash...

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Published 23 June, 2026 | Updated 23 June, 2026