Media releases
Media stories
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– ABC Health Report
Medical Emergencies in Space
As future missions plan for longer periods spent even further from Earth, what can crews do treat a medical emergency in orbit — and why is research in Antarctica helpful for our understanding of staying healthy in space?
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– ABC Story Stream
Staying healthy from Antarctica to Mars
Dr John Cherry knows a thing or two about how to keep people in remote places healthy, be it remote Australia, Antarctica, or space.
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– ABC News
Doctor and dedicated volunteer Felix Ho named 2026 NT Australian of the Year
Volunteer paramedic Felix Ho ASM has been named as the 2026 Australian of the Year for the Northern Territory. Dr Ho went to Antarctica with the Australian Antarctic Division as a John Flynn Placement Program medical student participant in 2014/15.
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– AusDoc
Stars in her eyes: Dr Alicia Tucker’s mission to become Australia’s next astronaut
Medicine has taken emergency specialist Dr Alicia Tucker from the ice of Antarctica to the dust of the outback — and may one day take her into space.
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– ABC Local Radio Tasmania Evenings Program
International Astronautical Congress
What UTAS is doing at the Astronautical Congress in Sydney for World Space Week with Dr John Cherry.
Listen to the full story – starts at 1:50:55.
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– ABC 730
Space Medicine
Antarctic research tests healthy bodies and minds for astronauts.
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– ABC News
Antarctic expeditioners join research project to help astronauts on space missions
Expeditioners at Australia’s Antarctic stations are taking part in a research project to better understand the cognitive and physiological impacts of extended deployments.
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– ABC News
The Franklin River rescue was extreme. Here’s how medics prepare
The Franklin River rescue was an extreme test for the skills of medics. In remote Tasmania, here’s how they train for “chaos”.
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– WIN News Tasmania
Antarctic doctors train in dentistry skills
With just a single doctor delivering health care at each of Australia’s Antarctic stations, being skilled across a range of medical areas is essential.
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– ABC Country Hour Tasmania
Antarctic doctors train in dentistry skills
Listen to the full story – starts at 40:42.
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– Oral Health Services Tasmania
Oral Health Services Tasmania trains Antarctic doctors in dentistry skills in Tasmania
Australian Antarctic doctors are undertaking dental training in Tasmania thanks to a new agreement through the Centre for Antarctic Remote and Maritime Medicine (CARMM).
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– Sydney Morning Herald
‘Scalpel please, chef’ at Australia’s Antarctic operating theatres
Picture the scene. You are the only doctor on one of Australia’s remote stations in Antarctica. One of the expeditioners comes to you in agony. You need to perform an appendectomy. Now.
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– ABC News
Tradies train up for emergency surgery on Australia’s Antarctic team
Picture this: You’re seriously injured at one of Australia’s Antarctic research stations, but the station doctor’s out of commission. You’re 2,000 kilometres from the nearest hospital. Who would you pick to perform surgery on you: the station’s chef, carpenter or boilermaker?
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– ABC News
Tradies fixed a doctor’s hand in Antarctica — and now medical experience like this will be shared with the world
When you have agreed to be a doctor at a remote Australian Antarctica base, you can literally take your life into your own hands.