The World Today, Exclusive by Jane Bardon
Here Makita's job as a sobering up shelter worker in the Northern Territory town of Tennant Creek was everything to him.
The Maori Cook Islander worked as a carer at the Indigenous-owned Barkly Region Alcohol And Drug Advisory Group (BRADAAG), admitting drunk people for a meal, shower and bed for the night for 21 years.
His friends said his long tenure in the job helping Indigenous people gave him high standing in the Cook Islands village where some of his family still lived and he regularly sent money to them.
The 44-year-old killed himself in 2019 three months after receiving a letter from BRADAAG telling him he was being suspended from the job and could be dismissed.
"That organisation, BRADAAG, was his whole life, they just simply took it all away from him," Mr Makita's friend, Tennant Creek construction business owner Jean Civitarese said.
She acted as his official support person in the disciplinary process Mr Makita went through at BRADAAG.
BRADAAG has denied there was anything improper about the disciplinary process Mr Makita went through.
Its suspension letter listed five allegations against Mr Makita spanning from January to March 2019.
It alleged he had tried to refuse a client access to the shelter, accusing him of wanting to come in to "humbug".
Among the allegations, BRADAAG said Mr Makita:
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