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Ms Sabina Knight, the only nurse on the new National Health and Hospitals Commission, will bring a passion for social justice, remote area nursing and Indigenous health to its work.

Ms Knight, a Senior Lecturer in Remote Health Practice at the Centre for Remote Health in Alice Springs and a founding member of the Council for Remote Area Nurses of Australia, says remote health offers many lessons for the wider system. "It's an environment that breeds innovation," she said.

Ms Knight, who has been working in Central Australia since 1984, traces her interest in social justice and Indigenous issues to when she was growing up in north-western NSW ...