Fiona Sheean

Chloe Campbell never thought she’d become a doctor.

For Country Women’s Association of Victoria East Gippsland Group president Robyn McKinley, “it’s not just about scones, jam and cream”.

Karen Hood has been nominated in the 2025 Shine Awards. To nominate an outstanding rural or regional woman you know, click here.

From boilermaker to Nuffield Scholar, Jackie Morrison’s journey to regenerative farming hasn’t followed a conventional path.

From city-based sign language teacher to cattle farmer, Catherine Hardy has spent decades helping those who need it most.

When Rachel Stewart spotted a sign at her local Castlemaine service station advertising a suicide prevention workshop in 2016, it was the first time she’d seen the word suicide used openly in a country town.

Cass McCormack has refused to let almost two centuries of the Mountain Cattleman’s Association of Victoria fade into history during her presidency.

From some of Western Australia’s most productive country to its most challenging – that’s the journey Alys and Harry McKeough took when they swapped their Northam cropping operation for 179,000 hectares of Gascoyne rangelands 15 years ago.

Given his Irish descent, one could be forgiven for thinking it was all luck that Brian Corr was able to buy his own dairy farm, share farm another and build up to a 900 cow milking herd in the space of 2½ years.

Increasing efficiency while reducing their environmental footprint has been a key component of Chris and Tania Parker’s Summit Park Enterprises since they bought their 80ha property at Hamilton 14 years ago.

The humble beginnings of South Australian cheesemaker Udder Delights is ever-present at its historic Adelaide Hills factory.

Farmers who graze livestock under solar panels, wind turbines or other renewable energy infrastructure must now declare it under the national on-farm assurance program.

A holistic approach to farm management and a committed grazing routine has allowed Chris Main to keep his inputs and cost of production low while increasing profits and soil carbon levels.

Four months ago, Julie and Russell Gillie hung up their dairy farming hats and jumped into a different seven-days-a-week lifestyle as the new owners of the Cock N Bull Boutique Hotel at Echuca.

Eighty-three year old Jenny Watson says being a female paddle steamer skipper was “tough, very tough in those days”.

In the labour-intensive and market-challenged field of strawberry growing, Queensland producers Tina and Bruce McPherson have been fortunate to find their sweet spot.