John Flynn (minister) John Flynn (minister) John Flynn (25 November 18805 May 1951) was an Australian Presbyterian minister who founded the Australian Inland Mission (AIM) which later became Frontier Services, as well as founding what became the Royal Flying Doctor Service, the world's first air ambulance. Educated at Snake Valley, Sunshine and Braybrook primary schools, he matriculated from University High School Parkville, aged 18. Unable to finance a university course, he became a pupil-teacher with the Victorian Education Department and developed interests in photography and first aid. In 1903 he began training for the ministry through an extra-mural course for 'student lay pastors',
Chris Flynn (author) Chris Flynn (author) Chris Flynn is an Australian author, editor and critic. Flynn's first novel, "A Tiger in Eden" was released in Australia by Text Publishing in March 2012. It was shortlisted for the 2013 Commonwealth Book Prize. His second novel, "The Glass Kingdom" will be released in May 2014. McSweeney's issue 41, released July 2012, features a portfolio of fiction by Indigenous Australian writers, "Terra Australis: Four Stories from Aboriginal Australian Writers", curated, edited and introduced by Flynn. Flynn contributed to a regular column, Odd Jobs, on The Paris Review Daily, the blog page of The Paris Review. He