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Back Roads: NT remote station life offering a 'freedom' these women cherish beyond the snake bites and isolation

It is a parent's worst nightmare.

When 32-year-old Ashley Sutton heard her three-year-old son Paddy say, "Ouch", she was not initially concerned. 

"He acted like he had a prickle and it's only when he's gone to sit down that I've noticed there's a snake underneath him and he's actually sat on the snake," she said.

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