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Tara Matteson’s home in the Northern Rivers city of Grafton is her safe place.

It’s where the Wiradjuri woman raised her teenage son in the embrace of a close-knit community.

Amidst a housing and cost-of-living crisis, the gratitude she has for this place really kicks in while she’s having a cuppa…