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Edwina Clowes,
RIRDC Rural Women's Award National Coordinator.
Phone: 07 5445 7282
Mobile: 0417 727 544
clowesedwina@bigpond.com

The Australian RIRDC Rural Women's Award 2009

	Victorian dairy industry leader Roma Britnell is the winner of the 2009 RIRDC Australian Rural Women’s Award and Queensland beef feedlot operator Barb Madden was named runner up. The Awards were announced by Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, Tony Burke, in front of nearly 300 rural industry leaders, parliamentarians and past Rural Women’s Award winners. Roma will use her Award to determine the best way for the Australian dairy industry to secure profit from the milk that farmers produce. Her ambition is to grow her knowledge and explore future marketing options and to build an awareness campaign to highlight to farmers the changed environment they are operating in. Barb Madden’s vision is to create national partnerships between indigenous cattle producers and the feed-lotting industry. She plans to trial a pilot program between the Cherbourg Aboriginal Council and her own business Smithfield Feedlot.