Headline : The Matildas of rural Australia

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Women have been involved in Australian agriculture from the beginning, but it wasn’t until 1994 that they could legally call themselves farmers in the Australian census. Even today agriculture is often perceived as being a man’s world. Kirsty White is typical of the many rural ladies quietly changing that perception.

Kirsty grew up on a beef property at Kingstown west of Armidale in NSW, and her first female agricultural role model was her mother.

“Women are an integral part of the farming landscape and I see a similarity with the Matildas (women’s soccer team). Women have always played sport but are only now receiving the recognition. Women have always worked on farms but historically we’ve never really seen their pictures or heard their stories.”

Post school Kirsty moved away from agriculture, completing a Bachelor of Arts in Office Management and working as an electoral officer for politician John Anderson. But love intervened and in 2005 she married grazier Sam White and found herself at Bald Blair Angus Stud, 10km east of Guyra and a mere 100km from where she grew up. Bald Blair runs 750 head of stud and commercial cattle and 1200 sheep across 2300ha. It has also been in the White Family for over one hundred years.

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