Meet the 17 GPs honoured on the King’s Birthday — part two

Staff writers

This is the second part of our 2025 King’s Birthday coverage. Read part one here.

Dr Margaret Niemann OAM had 12 years of experience as a GP obstetrician when she decided on a change.

It was the late 1990s, and the Federal Government was pushing for more doctors in remote Indigenous communities.

At the time, only one GP worked in any of these communities in the NT.