Larissa Petfield will never forget the moment her husband Ric pulled up at the house and started screaming: their daughter was injured.
The family had spent the day out on their remote 22,000 hectare station in south-west Queensland, mustering cattle. Larissa had come back to the house in the truck but Clare - just 18-months-old - wanted to ride back with Ric on the quad bike.
About 10 kilometres from home, disaster struck: one of the bike's tyres bit into a truck track and suddenly flipped on its side. As they fell, Ric did his best to shield Clare from injury but they both hit the ground hard.
Ric broke a rib; Clare landed on her head. Her face was cut and bleeding. She was dazed and soon started drifting in and out of consciousness.
Ric tried to call for help but couldn't raise anyone on the radio. So he flipped the bike back onto its wheels, bundled Clare into his arms and made for home. He talked to her the whole way in a bid to keep her awake.
Larissa remembers Ric's "blood-curdling cry" when he got to the house.
"I will never forget. It was the scariest day of my life," she says. "He raced in screaming for me. Clare was bleeding from the head. She wasn't conscious, she was in and out of it. We just didn't know how serious her injury was."
Clare, 18 months, after treatment for the quad bike accident.
Seeing her daughter hurt, Larissa went into shock but managed to call the Royal Flying Doctor Service. An hour later they arrived, landing on a nearby airstrip that had not been used in 14 years.
Fifteen minutes after that they were back in the air on the way to Charleville Hospital.
Ultimately, Clare's injuries proved superficial. She was battered and bruised but quickly made a full recovery.
Larissa Petfield cradles her 18-month-old daughter Clare on the Royal Flying Doctor Service flight.
This is the kind of work the RFDS will be able to extend with the help of new Turnbull government funding.
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull will on Thursday travel to Broken Hill to announce the extra $84.1 million to help RFDS services to expand to areas where Commonwealth-funded activity doesn’t currently reach.
Under the funding, which brings the total Commonwealth contribution to $327 million, people in remote areas will get better access to emergency air medical services and dental care services. And for the first time the RFDS will establish a Mental Health Outreach Clinic.
Mr Turnbull said the service was celebrating 90 years as one of the largest aeromedical organisations in the world.
"That’s 90 years of providing care to Australians living in some of the nation’s most remote areas, often in the most challenging circumstances. Ninety years of changing lives, 90 years of saving lives," he said.
Funding for dental outreach services in areas of most need will be extended beyond 2019 and the mental health clinic will be in operation by January 1, 2019. The government is also increasing its contribution to standby arrangements for RFDS bases to ensure access to ambulance services.
Services in NSW, Victoria, South Australia, Western Australia, Queensland and Tasmania will benefit from the funding.