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Nurses: On the Go

What do we see when we look closely?

Examine this postcard and stamp designed by Wendy Tamblyn and sponsored by the Australia Post in 1985 to commemorate the centenary of District Nursing Services in Australia.
Roll over different areas of the postcard to discover answers to the questions below.

    • Q1Can you spot where in Australia the first District Nursing Society was established?
    • A1The first society to provide nursing care for the sick in their homes was established in Melbourne in 1865.
    • Q2How did nurses move around the city?
    • A2By 1906, nurses use bicycles to reach a growing number of clients in the outer suburbs.
    • Q3Can you identify the organization that represents community nurses at the national level?
    • A3Formed in 1969, the Australian Council of Community Nursing Services ensures that community nurses have a voice in national policies.
White female nurse in blue, standing holding a bike, looking at viewer.
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A reproduction of a stamp commemorating the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Melbourne District Nursing Society, Australia, 1985

    • Q1Can you spot where in Australia the first District Nursing Society was established?
    • A1The first society to provide nursing care for the sick in their homes was established in Melbourne in 1865.
    • Q2How did nurses move around the city?
    • A2By 1906, nurses use bicycles to reach a growing number of clients in the outer suburbs.
    • Q3Can you identify the organization that represents community nurses at the national level?
    • A3Formed in 1969, the Australian Council of Community Nursing Services ensures that community nurses have a voice in national policies.
  • 1Can you spot where in Australia the first District Nursing Society was established?
  • 2How did nurses move around the city?
  • 3Can you identify the organization that represents community nurses at the national level?

Choose another postcard from Nurses: On the Go

  • A White female nurse sitting on top of a donkey and smiling at the viewer.
  • Two White female nurses in a motorcycle with sidecar. Both wear white uniforms under their cloaks.
  • Two White female nurses and a male orderly, tend to a soldier, two orderlies arrive in ambulance.
  • A White female with Red Cross armband riding a horse and carrying a satchel bag over her shoulder.
  • Eleven female Japanese nurses and two Japanese soldiers inside a Red Cross truck.
  • An ambulance drives next to barbed wire, in the background is a woman wrapped in a cloak.
  • Florence Nightingale's ambulance carriage, parked outside of a stone church.
  • A White female nurse in white squats next to a White patient on a stretcher next to an airplane.
  • A White female nurse in dark military overcoat standing next to an automobile, looking at the viewer.