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Video transcript - SA Rural Women's Award

VOICEOVER:
Meet Susi Tegen. Her dedication to improving rural businesses has seen her receive the prestigious 2009 South Australian Rural Women’s Award

You might think managing the family farm on the State’s Limestone Coast was hard enough.

But not for Susi, she’s also the Managing Director of “Free Eyre”, a group of local farmers working together to develop new businesses on the Eyre Peninsula.

To help Susi in her mission with Free Eyre, she’s been given a ten thousand dollar bursary by Agriculture, Food and Fisheries Minister Rory McEwen.

SUSI TEGEN:
It will allow me to study and put together some really great information about what models work around Australia, but also internationally, when farmer groups get together with business and government to look for solutions from the grass roots level.

VOICEOVER:
And in May, she’ll head to Canberra to compete for the national award.

SUSI TEGEN:
In the end, I believe women are just another component of what makes a good business, or a good environment and so women, like men, bring diversity and I think there are some really great opportunities to learn from other people who have been through a similar process.

VOICEOVER:
Now in its tenth year, the Rural Women’s Award recognises the vital contribution women make to rural Australia.

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