My Rural Story | Week 2 | Corey Stone

Corey Stone

I’m Corey Stone, I’m 26 years old and I’m a second year medical student at Bond University. Prior to studying medicine, I studied commerce. I did majors in accounting and finance and I worked in that industry up in Brisbane for two years. I’ve lived in the city my whole life so I hadn’t really had much exposure to rural or remote lifestyle until I went up to Kununurra. In my first year of med school I took the opportunity to participate in a student philanthropic trip out to Kununurra where we spent two weeks with the local kids running, or assisting, an organisation called Save The Children with a holiday program. During the holiday program, we organised

sporting activities for them, cooking classes, boys nights, girls nights, lots of sports - they love their sports out there. I have to say, it was the most eye opening experience I’ve had inmywhole life, seeing the difference, the contrast between rural and remote and metropolitan and city lifestyles and it probably was the most rewarding two weeks of my life.

What is different about working in rural and remote areas?

Working in Kununurra, in a remote community, is incredibly different to working in a metropolitan area. There’s a real sense of community out

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