Uploaded December 2020 | Updated September 2026, 7 hours ago

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The opal fields are a dangerous place, and doctors and health workers have always been an important part of the Lightning Ridge opal mining community. Join Barb from the Lightning Ridge Historical Society on a tour of the Cottage Hospital, a medical facility from 1914 beautifully preserved as part of the Society's display in Morilla Street, Lightning Ridge.

2020 is (appropriately) the International Year of the Nurse and the Midwife. For more information, visit 2020yearofthenurse.org and for more local information visit https://www.health.nsw.gov.au/nursing/Pages/2020-international-year-of-the-nurse-and-the-midwife.aspx

If you are a nurse, doctor, health professional or someone who works in any area of the health industry -- thank you. Your work this year has been tremendous and we all appreciate it.

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Other music by Russell Gawthorpe: soundcloud.com/datazoid

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