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embracing opportunity

Say yes to every invitation. That was the sage advice Erika Marsh accepted when she moved from all that was familiar in Brisbane almost 1200 kilometres north-west to Longreach in outback Queensland. The newly graduated speech pathologist had grown up in Brisbane and studied at the University of Queensland before she took on the challenge of a remote placement.

“I always knew I wanted to try the bush,” she says. “Unlike many of my classmates who chose to stay in the city, I was keen to give

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