Palm Island, or “Bwgcolman” to the locals, is located on the Great Barrier Reef near Townsville in North Queensland. It’s a tropical paradise but for Corrina Ross, it’s home. With jobs scarce on the island, she feared that rather than finding long-term employment locally and giving back to her community, she would have to leave the island to get a job to build the future she wanted for herself.
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