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Annabelle has owned the remote 240,000-hectare Yarrie Station since 2015, when she bought the property from her parents, Lang and Ann. With a farming pedigree like hers - Yarrie has been in her father's family since the 1880s, while her maternal grandfather was the inspiration for the cattle station manager in novel/film A Town Like Alice - Annabelle has her eye on the future of this wide, red land. Annabelle COPPIN A WOMAN'S PLACE If you want some idea of the slice of Oz that 35-year-old Annabelle Coppin manages, picture a cattle station twice the size of the Australian Capital Territory. Up front Keelen MAILMAN FOR LOVE AND COUNTRY Keelen Mailman sits on her veranda, watching the sun set behind the vast plains and rocky outcrops of Mount Tabor Station, or Goorathuntha in the local Bidjara language that her mum treasured and taught her. "I love the late afternoons", she says with that deep, warm, Queensland accent. [Extracted from the article] |
