September 23, 2025 • 5 mins
We head to Orange, NSW, to catch up with our favourite Scottish/Aussie Nuffield Scholar and find out what she’s up to.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
She is a favorite Scottish Ozzy, Scottish Flesh Ozzy and
Nuffield scholar and I'm as Claire Tyler Claire, it was
lovely to catch up with you in cross Church recently
at the Primary Industry Awards. Do you get sick of
travel and speaking? And am saying because I know you
do lots of it.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
I mean, I've been very lucky that I've been able
to travel to so many amazing parts of New Zealand
and Australia since moving out here. And it's a great wait,
I guess, see different parts of agriculture and meet some
amazing people and inspiring speakers. But it's a lot of travel.
And when you live in Australia and you live in
a country town, you realize how much more travel it involves.
So spending a little bit time at home and the
(00:39):
farm is something I'm welcoming at the moment.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Well, you're farming just outside of Orange, which is a
sort of central New South Wales. To give people an idea,
it's just up the road away bit in Ozzie terms,
not in New Zealand terms. From Bethurst, your husband or
your partner should I sign Mitch Hart a former winner
of the Zenda MacDonald Awards. You've just had on a
new farming operation. What's happening there?
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Oh, we have the last two weeks we've just moved to,
like you say, outside Orange, a place called's Ife Farm.
We've been so excited about this. It's about five hundred
acres and they're moving. Some of our our angus are
actually arriving tomorrow. We've got about one hundred and thirty
thousand calfs arriving on the place and we've just been
getting settled in. We're so lucky and it's it's the
most it's the most beautiful farmer right wedged in between
(01:25):
a beautiful national park called born Or Caves. So in
terms of the wildlife on the farm, the undulating land,
I am loving it because parts of it feels about
like home because they've got all the beautiful green hilly landscapes.
But then it's got all the gorgeous native trees everywhere.
And it's been my first forry into Australian farming. So
we're just loving it.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Well, I'm glad you haven't lost your Scottish lilt. It's
so much nicer to listen to than an Aussie twang.
You you just keep your eggs in so your partner, Mitch,
I think you just dropped them off at the Orange airport.
I didn't even realize there was an airport at Orange.
And he's off with my mit, Shane mcmanoway to Longreach
(02:05):
for the induction of the Zenda McDonald Awards into the
what the Australian Stockman's Hall of Time or something like that.
I might not have got that totally correct, but that's
where he's going, isn't he It is.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
He's very excited. He's off for a few days. He've
got a Quantus, a small Quantus plane. I wish I
knew the name of it. I should know that since
he flies planes. So he's very excited. They're all up
there for a few days. Think Saturday night or Friday
night is a big dinner that you've got some You've
got some former finalists winners, and they've also got the
two finalists from this year that are on their Australian
(02:39):
trip right now, so he's off to meet them. So
he's very excited. And Nancy Troshaw, who everyone will know
very well. I think she's joining them as well. So
they've got a wonderful few days celebrating what is a
really amazing award. And I'm very glad because obviously I
met Mitch through when I moved to Australia as well.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Talk about the couple of businesses you've set up this year,
because you're never on home, I don't know how you
run them.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Well. My Advocacy Consulting I set that up in February
and that, like you say, you asked me at the
start Jamie about all my MCing and everything. I've been
so busy traveling around the place doing a lot of
my MCing speaking about my new field and that's been
a real focus of that part of my business and
really sharing learnings around that, and that is all about
raising the profile of farming in a really positive way
(03:24):
and sharing advice to individuals and how we can get
more collective in that. And that's been amazing and I'm
actually taking some time to reflect in some of that
work just now. And then in July we launched Unstoppable World.
When I say we, there's four founding members from around
the world and it's basically a resilience in Leadership initiative
(03:46):
that is starting in Zimbabwe, in South Africa and it's
all about taking people on immersive tours in really profound
locations and we've organized some phenomenal tours. The first one
is going to be in South Africa in February and
that comes about a bit off the back of my
net field, but really to organize something we can offer
that isn't part of a scholarship, but anyone can apply
(04:07):
and take part in these amazing kind of out of
farm experiences, but get them as well. As part of that,
there's all these different learning modules incorporated. So we're so excited.
So that's something I'm full hog one at the moment.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Hell's the farming season treating you in Orange, New South Wales.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
We've been very lucky the last few weeks we got
there was a period there weighed about sixty mil of
rain in two days. So it's come at a really
good time because of temperatures lifting, so we've had this
sort of spring flash. The grasses really the pastures had
a massive boost and we've rested the farm for months
between the last tenants and us coming on and when
the cattle arrived tomorrow, we've got to be a bit
(04:45):
careful because we've had so much grass coming in, so
we've had to get in quite a bit of kind
of ruffage to sort of help their guts moving in.
So it's a bit of an operation to go from
what had been drought earlier in the year to now
having a lot of rain and having everything coming back
to life and being very green. But I'm not I've
got to not take it. I've got to take it
a pinch of salt because i know it can change
very quickly here, but at the moment, it's luscious and
(05:07):
beautiful out there.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Clay Tayler always good to catch up with you on
the country. Keep up the great work. You are a favorite,
officially a favorite Scottish Australian Nuffield scholar. I can't think
of any other Scottish Australian Nuffield scholars I know, so
you're definitely the favorite. Thanks for your time.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Thanks Jamie,
She is a favorite Scottish Ozzy, Scottish Flesh Ozzy and
Nuffield scholar and I'm as Claire Tyler Claire, it was
lovely to catch up with you in cross Church recently
at the Primary Industry Awards. Do you get sick of
travel and speaking? And am saying because I know you
do lots of it.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
I mean, I've been very lucky that I've been able
to travel to so many amazing parts of New Zealand
and Australia since moving out here. And it's a great wait,
I guess, see different parts of agriculture and meet some
amazing people and inspiring speakers. But it's a lot of travel.
And when you live in Australia and you live in
a country town, you realize how much more travel it involves.
So spending a little bit time at home and the
(00:39):
farm is something I'm welcoming at the moment.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Well, you're farming just outside of Orange, which is a
sort of central New South Wales. To give people an idea,
it's just up the road away bit in Ozzie terms,
not in New Zealand terms. From Bethurst, your husband or
your partner should I sign Mitch Hart a former winner
of the Zenda MacDonald Awards. You've just had on a
new farming operation. What's happening there?
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Oh, we have the last two weeks we've just moved to,
like you say, outside Orange, a place called's Ife Farm.
We've been so excited about this. It's about five hundred
acres and they're moving. Some of our our angus are
actually arriving tomorrow. We've got about one hundred and thirty
thousand calfs arriving on the place and we've just been
getting settled in. We're so lucky and it's it's the
most it's the most beautiful farmer right wedged in between
(01:25):
a beautiful national park called born Or Caves. So in
terms of the wildlife on the farm, the undulating land,
I am loving it because parts of it feels about
like home because they've got all the beautiful green hilly landscapes.
But then it's got all the gorgeous native trees everywhere.
And it's been my first forry into Australian farming. So
we're just loving it.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Well, I'm glad you haven't lost your Scottish lilt. It's
so much nicer to listen to than an Aussie twang.
You you just keep your eggs in so your partner, Mitch,
I think you just dropped them off at the Orange airport.
I didn't even realize there was an airport at Orange.
And he's off with my mit, Shane mcmanoway to Longreach
(02:05):
for the induction of the Zenda McDonald Awards into the
what the Australian Stockman's Hall of Time or something like that.
I might not have got that totally correct, but that's
where he's going, isn't he It is.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
He's very excited. He's off for a few days. He've
got a Quantus, a small Quantus plane. I wish I
knew the name of it. I should know that since
he flies planes. So he's very excited. They're all up
there for a few days. Think Saturday night or Friday
night is a big dinner that you've got some You've
got some former finalists winners, and they've also got the
two finalists from this year that are on their Australian
(02:39):
trip right now, so he's off to meet them. So
he's very excited. And Nancy Troshaw, who everyone will know
very well. I think she's joining them as well. So
they've got a wonderful few days celebrating what is a
really amazing award. And I'm very glad because obviously I
met Mitch through when I moved to Australia as well.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Talk about the couple of businesses you've set up this year,
because you're never on home, I don't know how you
run them.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Well. My Advocacy Consulting I set that up in February
and that, like you say, you asked me at the
start Jamie about all my MCing and everything. I've been
so busy traveling around the place doing a lot of
my MCing speaking about my new field and that's been
a real focus of that part of my business and
really sharing learnings around that, and that is all about
raising the profile of farming in a really positive way
(03:24):
and sharing advice to individuals and how we can get
more collective in that. And that's been amazing and I'm
actually taking some time to reflect in some of that
work just now. And then in July we launched Unstoppable World.
When I say we, there's four founding members from around
the world and it's basically a resilience in Leadership initiative
(03:46):
that is starting in Zimbabwe, in South Africa and it's
all about taking people on immersive tours in really profound
locations and we've organized some phenomenal tours. The first one
is going to be in South Africa in February and
that comes about a bit off the back of my
net field, but really to organize something we can offer
that isn't part of a scholarship, but anyone can apply
(04:07):
and take part in these amazing kind of out of
farm experiences, but get them as well. As part of that,
there's all these different learning modules incorporated. So we're so excited.
So that's something I'm full hog one at the moment.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Hell's the farming season treating you in Orange, New South Wales.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
We've been very lucky the last few weeks we got
there was a period there weighed about sixty mil of
rain in two days. So it's come at a really
good time because of temperatures lifting, so we've had this
sort of spring flash. The grasses really the pastures had
a massive boost and we've rested the farm for months
between the last tenants and us coming on and when
the cattle arrived tomorrow, we've got to be a bit
(04:45):
careful because we've had so much grass coming in, so
we've had to get in quite a bit of kind
of ruffage to sort of help their guts moving in.
So it's a bit of an operation to go from
what had been drought earlier in the year to now
having a lot of rain and having everything coming back
to life and being very green. But I'm not I've
got to not take it. I've got to take it
a pinch of salt because i know it can change
very quickly here, but at the moment, it's luscious and
(05:07):
beautiful out there.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Clay Tayler always good to catch up with you on
the country. Keep up the great work. You are a favorite,
officially a favorite Scottish Australian Nuffield scholar. I can't think
of any other Scottish Australian Nuffield scholars I know, so
you're definitely the favorite. Thanks for your time.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Thanks Jamie,
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