Nurse Nettie Hodgson-Taylor found purpose in the pain of the death of her teenage son.

In the remote Northern Territory Indigenous community of Ali Curung, she is a vital support for the 354 residents there, many of whom deal with poverty and isolation.

“Desperation and poverty are like a curtain across the doors of opportunity,” she tells Central News.

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Main image Frances Du.