Life on the Land

Welcome to Life On The Land's Summer Series where the Graziher team choose their favourite story of the year and explain how the story touched or inspired them or made them think about something in a different way.  Today we’re hearing the story of Kay Hull AO, as chosen by Graziher team member, Sally Jackson.

Welcome to Life On The Land's Summer Series where the Graziher team choose their favourite story of the year and explain how the story touched or inspired them or made them think about something in a different way.  Today we’re hearing the story of Lynda MacCallum, as chosen by Graziher team member, Amie Shann.

Welcome to Life On The Land's Summer Series where the Graziher team choose their favourite story of the year and explain how the story touched or inspired them or made them think about something in a different way.  Today’s conversation with Skye Manson has been chosen by Graziher founder, Claire Dunne.

Samantha Armytage helped millions of Aussies wake up every day for eight years, as one of our most loved TV personalities and co-host of popular national breakfast show, Sunrise. Known for her humour, her sharp journalistic sense and for being a down to earth straight shooter, Sam radiates this beautiful authenticity which can often be lost in the shine of TV land – something she puts down to her...

We know most of you will feel like you know today’s guest intimately, because you hear her calm, soothing voice on a lot of your favourite podcasts. Yes, we finally have our gorgeous co-host, Skye Manson, on the other side of the microphone. Skye is first and foremost a storyteller. She’s one of the most happily curious women Emily Herbert has had the pleasure of meeting – finding a genuine deligh...

Our guest today is Michelle Leonard OAM, artistic director and founder Moorambilla Voices, an exceptional choir of children and youth from western NSW and a program that is deeply connected to the land in which it’s art is made. If you have ever been privy to Moorambilla Voices you will know it's power, giving rural children the chance to be a part of something so much bigger than themselves. Musi...

Today’s guest is Kay Hull AO, born in Guyra New South Wales and best known for her long and distinguished career in politics. Kay entered Parliament House in 1998 as the Nationals member for the Riverina and was elected for four more terms before retiring prior to general elections in 2010. Kay Hull is small in stature but big on heart and is a genuine campaigner for the everyday man and woman. 'W...

Tasmanian rural motherhood advocate and founder of Motherland Australia, Stephanie Trethewey, has been awarded as the National Winner of the 2022 AgriFutures Rural Women’s Award National and Victorian founder of OAK Magazine, Kimberley Furness has won the National Runner Up title. Stephanie, a Dunorlan-based farmer, podcaster and founder of Motherland Village, was recognised for her work establish...

Tasmanian rural motherhood advocate and founder of Motherland Australia , Stephanie Trethewey, has been awarded as the National Winner of the 2022 AgriFutures Rural Women’s Award National and Victorian founder of OAK Magazine, Kimberley Furness has won the National Runner Up title. Stephanie, a Dunorlan-based farmer, podcaster and founder of Motherland Village, was recognised for her work establis...

As a young person on the land, finding your place within the family business can be difficult and sometimes uncomfortable.   But when Meg Rutledge from Moble Station, 1000 kilometres west of the eastern seaboard in Queensland, returned home from London the idea to begin a luxury outback homestay experience with camping, nature walks and hiking was the perfect fit.   To me it’s such a great example...

If there’s anyone who understands the diversity of women who love the land, it’s today’s guest, Victoria Carey. V, as she’s known by those who work with her, has been in the media game for more than two decades, including 11 years as the editor in chief of Country Style, and is now at the editorial helm of Graziher Magazine. Yet a life in journalism almost didn’t happen – with a teenage horse-mad...

If there’s anyone who understands the diversity of women who love the land, it’s today’s guest – Victoria Carey. V, as she’s known by those who work with her, has been in the media game for more than two decades – including 11 years as the editor in chief of Country Style - and is now at the editorial helm of Graziher Magazine. Yet a life in journalism almost didn’t happen – with a teenage horse-m...

There's a word for the period of time it takes to grow and raise a baby, Matrescence. The physical, emotional hormonal and social transition to become a mother. The overwhelming love, the uneasy trepidation or sometimes downright fear, sadness, guilt and anxiety, the joys and the crushing lows. The exhaustion and at times, the loneliness and boredom. It's also a time that can be heighten when livi...

Today’s guest gets imposter syndrome when she talks about her role in agriculture and rural Australia. Sammie O’Brien presents Channel 7’s Queensland Weekender and Creek to Coast and she is known and loved by country and city people all over. Sammie lives a double life spending half the week in Brisbane and half the week on her cattle farm in Torrone, halfway between Brisbane and Warwick. She’s al...

West Australian Bec Bignell is a passionate film-maker and producer who’s determined to get the ‘real’ regional, rural and remote Australia on screens everywhere. She wants more films shot in rural Australia. She wants crews to spend more time learning about rural Australia, by living there. She wants more rural Australians employed in the film industry, especially if they are filming in town. And...

Plants, place, space, escape; everything about gardens and gardening, it’s all a balm for our guest today Cassandra Hooke who lives, and gardens, on the Hay Plains in the New South Wales Western Riverina. You might know Cass as @outbackgardens on Instagram where she documents the growth of her newly established garden on the Plains in nothing more than a friendly and helpful nature. If you’ve read...

Torie Finnane was a midwife, one of the best they say. As a person she was infectious, drawing people into her metaphorical embrace. Through her work delivering babies she touched the lives of so many mother’s in huge ways. This story is heart breaking because Torie died. She tragically lost her life just days after giving birth to her third child when she contracted bacterial meningitis. And even...

Sandra Scott isn’t your average retiree. The 81-year-old co-owns Australia’s most isolated pub - the Mt Dare Hotel - alongside her husband, Graham. The pair threw in the farming game seven years ago, after 45-years on the land in Victoria. Instead of putting their feet up, the dynamic duo decided on a desert change – and have never looked back. Sandy says moving to the hotel – which is on the West...

Our host Emily Herbert doesn't usually think about what she will eat during the day, because she don’t have to. She knows there will be food in her fridge, her freezer or her pantry. Because of this, she says she's one of the richest people in the world. And realising recently just how many Australians are going hungry, or with little access to fresh, quality food, was a big reality and privilege...

We’re breaking from normal transmission this week – to bring you a special episode for Mothers Day in Australia – to mark the wonderful women who made us who we are, who held our hands while young and old and even in spirit, who let things slip, pass a knowing wink over the dinner table, fold our clothes, make our meals, exercise in the early hours so they can give more of themselves to us. Mother...

Wendy McCarthy AO's list of achievements, influences and involvements is too long to mention them all. She was a founding member of Women’s Electoral Lobby and continues to be an advocate for women. She has held many significant leadership roles in key national and international bodies including Deputy Chair of the ABC, Chancellor of the University of Canberra, Chair of Headspace, Chair of Austral...

Many of us spend our days hooning from one task to the next whilst frantically keeping all the balls in the air, career, family, animals, properties and ageing parents. We tend to take our health for granted until one day, for some, there comes a diagnosis which leaves us little room for complacency. May is the month for The May 50K raising vital funds for vital research for Multiple Sclerosis. Th...

She describes herself as a 'sometimes farmer'. You’ll rarely find her milking the cows but without her, her family may not be able to make a living from dairy cows nor live on-farm – for there would be no one to ensure her children get a good education in a bigger city, drive long distances to sporting events, move a mob of cows at a minutes notice, make business phone calls or generally tie up al...

Social media can be a real mixed bag. There’s so much juiciness about it – its power of connectivity, its ability to help forge new, global friendships, it' enriching escapism, its use as a portal to new worlds and as a tool for information. But there are the downsides, too. Trolls, for one. If you’re not careful, Instagram can play perfectly into the hands of the old saying, comparison is the thi...

The CWA is an icon of Australia. Everyone knows it, respects it and most have a story to share about it. The Country Women's Association is akin family for anyone who’s ever lived in rural Australia, For the last 100 years its women have been responsible for huge progress in the areas of health, facilities and telecommunications for the bush. But more than that – decades ago, when city women fell...