Home-grown Derby girl to be town's first Aboriginal doctor

''She's a capable netballer, a volunteer fire fighter with a weakness for mango ice-cream, a reluctant fisher-woman who hates throwing a line but loves eating the catch. She laughs easily, watches Grey's Anatomy and reads Women's Health.

"I think I was always a little bit medically-inclined," Vinka says, smiling as she casts her mind back to the day her mother bought her a plastic stethoscope as a toy.

"I was always that kid who wanted to put bandaids on and take someone's temperature when they're sick."...''

by Ella Archibald-Binge

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