Senior journalist and former Channel Nine foreign correspondent Laura Turner has spent her career covering some of the biggest news stories in the world, from the Trump presidency and major natural disasters to the disappearance of MH370. The two-time Quill award winning journalist still reports for Nine but has moved to Mildura with her partner Dan to raise their young family. Today, she begins a Sunraysia Daily series in which she introduces us to some of the region's most interesting and inspiring people.

DECADES-old blue tattoo ink is scrawled over his forearms, the edges bleeding into his skin like memories struggling to stay on the surface.