The Australian Red Cross Blood Service (ARCBS) is a branch of the Australian Red Cross. It is the body primarily responsible for blood donation and related services in Australia. Australian Red Cross Blood Service employs around 4000 employees across scientific, medical and support services, processing over half a million non-remunerated blood donors each year.
The Blood Service is funded by the governments of Australia and is a division of Australian Red Cross.
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“Beyond the horizon, or even the knowledge, of the cities along the coast, a great, creative impulse is at work—the only thing, after all, that gives this continent meaning and a guarantee of the future. Every Australian ought to climb up here, once in a way, and glimpse the various, manifold life of which he is a part.”
—Vance Palmer (1885–1959)
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If power change purpose, what our seemers be.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
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—Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935)