A governess meets a handsome jackeroo, they fall in love and move onto the family station. It sounds like a fairytale, or perhaps a Mills & Boon novel, but for Raelene Hall, it wasn’t quite that simple.
For over 40 years, she’s carried a quiet feeling that she didn’t quite belong. That she somehow didn’t measure up to who and what a station owners wife should be. That she wasn’t a legitimate bush woman.
This is a story about finding her voice, finding her place, and, eventually, learning to back herself.
This episode is proudly brought to you by the International Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists West Australian committee, in partnership with the Southern Rangelands Pastoral Alliance, and Regional Development Australia Midwest and Gascoyne.
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