- Entry type: Person
- Entry ID: AWE4497
Postlethwaite, Yvonne
- Occupation Businesswoman, Community stalwart, Farmer
Summary
Yvonne Postlethwaite is a prominent member of the St Arnaud, Victoria community, where she is business manager of a grain farm. She is involved in a range of community groups including the Community Resource Centre, Development and Tourism Association, Community Capacity Building Initiative, Grains Industry Training Network and was a former North Central Catchment Management Authority Implementation Committee member.
She was awarded Kara Kara Citizen of the year for Services to Agriculture in 1991. She was a member of Wimmera Conservation Farming Association, secretary of St. Arnaud and District Business Forum and will was the first woman President of the Rotary Club of St Arnaud.
Yvonne has a strong commitment to natural resource management through sustainable agricultural practices. She was awarded a PhD in that field from University of Adelaide, Dept. of Agronomy and Farming Systems.
She was a state winner of the ABC Rural Woman of the Year award in 1997. She represented the Western & South Western region of Victoria.
Events
- 1997 - 1997
Published resources
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Resource
- Trove: Postlethwaite, Yvonne, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1477542
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Resource Section
- 1997 ABC Victoria Rural Woman of the Year Award Winners, ABC Radio, 1997, http://www.abc.net.au/rural/rwoty/vic.htm
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Thesis
- Sustainability of dryland cropping systems in the Wimmera region of Victoria, Postlethwaite, Yvonne L., 1998, http://library.adelaide.edu.au/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=322894
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Site Exhibition
- Brilliant Ideas and Huge Visions: ABC Radio Australian Rural Women of the Year - 1994-1997, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2011, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/rwya/rwya-home.html