In Depth

Meet the young Australians battling drought in rural NSW

Carolyn Millet
PM
October 5 2019 - 11:30am
FUTURE: Catherine Mitchell and Luke Richards will put their ideas forward at the NSW Youth Summit on Living with Drought. Picture: Simone De Peak
FUTURE: Catherine Mitchell and Luke Richards will put their ideas forward at the NSW Youth Summit on Living with Drought. Picture: Simone De Peak

Each weekend Catherine Mitchell, 19, makes the four-hour trip from Tocal, where she lives and studies, to her family's beef cattle farm outside Tamworth. She says three years of drought has reduced its paddocks to dust.

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Carolyn Millet

Carolyn Millet

Senior journalist

Based at The Northern Daily Leader, Tamworth, and Namoi Valley Independent, Gunnedah. Covering general news and features on community, council, arts, business, health, education, entertainment and rural matters.

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