- Entry type: Person
- Entry ID: AWE4745
Forsyth, Dianne
- Occupation Community activist, Farmer
Summary
Dianne Forsyth was the 1997 state winner of the ABC Radio Rural Woman of the Year Award for Western Australia.
Dianne was an active business partner with her husband and sons in a beef production business. They produced free-range, bio-dynamically grown beef at their property ‘Three Rivers Station’, in the mid-west and wheatbelt region.
Dianne was also active in the community in the Country Women’s Association and the National Council of Women. She started, and was foundation Chairman of, the Meekatharra Royal Flying Doctor Service Auxiliary and President of the Silverchain Bush Nursing Post Committee.
Events
- 1997 - 1997
Published resources
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Resource Section
- 1997 ABC Western Australian Rural Woman of the Year Award Winners, ABC Radio, 1997, http://www.abc.net.au/rural/rwoty/wa.htm
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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
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Resource
- Trove: Forsyth, Dianne, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1514314