SCOOP MAGAZINE : Scoop 68 Winter Edition, Page 99
If you are a woman in rural Australia, people have been known to make certain assumptions about your life on the land. Some city dwellers assume life on a pastoral station, or in a remote town, must be simpler, quieter- duller even. Or that jobs for women are more limited. Or that rural females couldn't possibly be as cultured, smart or downright saucy as their Sex in the City cousins, or could they?..... Click HERE to read the full article (actually.... there is a unsolvable technical issue, that will see you needing to scroll back two pages to find our story).
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Wednesday 27th November 2013
ABC OPEN
Hunting for foxes - Project Video
Can rural women be just as sexy and career-focused as city women? Meet a group of ladies from Mullewa WA proving that "Yes, they can!"Traipsing through the bush in super high heels is no easy feat (or should that be feet, ha ha?). If you combine that and a tight skirt, you have an interesting problem. This was the situation I found myself in while taking part in my photo shoot for the Hunting for Foxes project - the idea being to challenge the assumptions and misconceptions about women in the bush. With my heels sinking into the red dust, I was aiming to challenge the ideas that rural women don’t try to be sexy or serious, or even aspire to have a career........Click HERE for the Full Blog and to view the Video
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| Pip Rumble photographed by Carlo Fernandes |
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Wednesday 28th August 2013
ABC -Sarah Taillier
Country women get frocked up for fun in the name of art
On an ordinary afternoon, Shirley Flynn, 78, would usually be tending to house chores or working for a country committee. But one afternoon last month the grandmother of five traded in her house clothes for a full length gown."I love dressing up but when you're on a farm and working and town doesn't have anything like that that you can get dressed up for, you don't get much of a chance," she said...........Click HERE to read the full article |
| Shirley Flynn Photographed by Natalija Brunovs |
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