"Not only are they having to drive the distance, and in reality, that can be 500, 600, 700 kilometres one way … a lot of that's on pretty crappy roads, so all you've got to do is blow a four-wheel drive tyre and the prices escalate very quickly,"she said.
"You can feel very isolated in the bush and you can feel quite helpless when things aren't quite the way that you'd hoped or intended,"Ms Brown said.
"If you don't have the socio-emotional skills, if you don't have self-regulation, you can't learn."