• Entry type: Person
  • Entry ID: AWE4468

Marks, Barbara

(1931 – )
  • Born 1 January, 1931
  • Occupation Farmer

Summary

Barbara Marks was Queensland winner of the ABC Rural Woman of the Year Award in 1994.

Barbara grew up in Dalby, in the Darling Downs region of southern Queensland. She worked in a small business briefly, before meeting her husband and moving to ‘Ambathalla Station’ in Charleville, Queensland. They weathered many storms together, literally and figuratively. In the 1960s the wool price collapse forced her to move into town in order to ensure the continued education of her children, while her husband, Bill, worked as a shearer.

Events

  • 1994 - 1994

Published resources

Archival resources

  • National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection
    • Barbara Marks interviewed by Ros Bowden in the Women of the land oral history project [sound recording]
    • Women of the land oral history project

Related entries


  • Awarded
    • ABC Radio Rural Woman of the Year Awards (1994 - 1997)