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Sally Mitchell interviewed by Nikki Henningham in the Rural Women of the Year Award oral history project [sound recording]
Bib ID 4901030
Format AudioAudio, OnlineOnline
Author
Mitchell, Sally, 1962-
 
Online Access
Access Conditions Access open for research, personal copies and public use. 
Description 2010. 
1 sound file (ca. 89 min.) 
Series

Rural Women of the Year Award oral history project.

Technical Details

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. 

Summary

Sally Mitchell born in Cohuna, Vic. talks about her father’s sawmill; her family background; the local timber source and the local state forest which is now a national park; the relationship between him as an independent miller and the forest commission; how the industry still operates in the area; the property she lives on 'Wattle Creek'; learning her business skills from her mother; her education; getting a job in the National Bank; marrying; overseas travel, getting an illness which prevented her from working fulltime when she returned; leasing property at Gannawarra and Torrumbarry, running sheep and cattle; the purchase of a dairy farm; rural finance; her husband's illness and death (1992); Austin Hospital; the birth of her daughter (India) in June 1992; working the farm with hired help; her nomination for the ABC Rural Woman of the Year Award, winning the state award; public speaking; invitations to join boards and statutory authorities.

Mitchell discusses her involvement in the Victorian Women's Advisory Council; how farm living should not be an emotional decision but a financial one; working at the Kerang TAFE with rural women; understanding the extent of rural women's marginalisation; Cohuna Women in Agriculture Committee, teaching chemical handling and a women's only Artificial Insemination course; her degree through Monash distance education, completing a Diploma in Education; meeting the other ABC Rural Woman Award nominees; Joan Kirner; getting involved in Agripolitics, United Dairy Farmers, Women's Advisory Council, Target 10, Goulburn Murray Water; her Women in Agriculture involvement; being asked by IMG management group to join there stable of public speakers; women as agents of change in rural environments; Dairy Industry; horse riding being a very important part of their family life; Global Financial Crisis; her remarriage.

Biography/History

Sally Mitchell was the inaugural winner of the ABC Victorian Rural Woman of the Year in 1994. She runs a successful dairy farm in Northern Victoria.

Notes

Recorded on 24 May 2010 in Torrumbarry, Vic.

Index/Finding Aid Note Timed summany (5 p.) and corrected transcript (typescript, 65 leaves) 
Subjects Mitchell, Sally, - 1962- - Interviews.  |  Rural Woman of the Year Award.  |  Rural women - Victoria - Torrumbarry - Interviews.  |  Dairy farmers - Victoria - Interviews.
Other authors/contributors Henningham, Nicola, 1960-  |  Australian Broadcasting Corporation

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