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Rural Women's Award National Coordinator.
Phone:
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The
Australian
RIRDC
Rural Women's Award
2009
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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.
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