Brave six-year-old Daisy Pearse is fighting cancer and winning. But her mother, Ash, says challenges beyond the hospital ward are a burden regional families should not have to bear. LAURA TURNER reports.

ASH Pearse shifts her weight in the hard hospital chair, after the torture of the past 24 hours wound a thousand barbs around her mind and drove one straight into her heart. Three-year-old Spence...