- Entry type: Person
- Entry ID: AWE4470
Dyer, Val
(1949 – )- Occupation Community stalwart, Pastoralist, Political candidate
Summary
Val Dyer was the Northern Territory winner of the ABC Rural Woman of the Year Award in 1994.
Details
At the time of her award, Val Dyer had been involved in primary production for over twenty years. In her two decades on ‘Hayfield Station’ Val has been responsible for business management as well as improving the productivity and quality of animal production and staff employment.
She has been involved in improving technological services to the School of the Air, and has been involved in the Isolated Children’s Parents’ Association. Her industry association involvement includes membership of the Northern Territory Cattlemen’s Association, an organisation she was president of in 2002-2003.
Val was the Country Liberal Party’s candidate for the seat of Barkly in the 2005 N. T. Legislative Assembly elections.
Events
- 1994
Archival resources
Published resources
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Resource Section
- 1994 ABC Rural Woman of the Year State Winners, ABC Radio, 1997, http://www.abc.net.au/rural/rwoty/previous94.htm#sta
- Book Section
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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: Dyer, Val (1949-), http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1477378