- Entry type: Person
- Entry ID: AWE4468
Marks, Barbara
(1931 – )- Born 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
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1994
Winner – ABC Queensland Rural Woman of the Year
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: Marks, Barbara (1931-), http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1477332