When Canadian nurse Deanna Bitar and three friends arrived in Australia, it was meant to be for a working holiday. Fifty years down the track, Deanna is still here, married to her husband, Samih, for almost as many years and with no intention of ever leaving Alice Springs for longer than a holiday.
Deanna grew up in Corner Brook, a service centre of the west coast of the island of Newfoundland. She did her nursing training in St Johns, the capital city
