Robbie Sefton - photo courtesy North West Magazine

Robbie Sefton is a woman with vision, passion and drive. These qualities have seen her add one more achievement to an already long list.

Robbie is a partner in a leading farming business producing fine wool, cereal and legume crops near Coonabarabran in New South Wales. From the farm and an office in Gunnedah she also runs a successful national public relations and communications consultancy specifically for rural, regional and remote Australia, with team members in Sydney, Melbourne and Perth.

She is a graduate of the Australian Rural Leadership Program. Last year Robbie was named RIRDC Rural Woman of the Year for New South Wales and joined the Australian delegation to the World Rural Womens' Congress in Spain.

Thanks to anIndustry Partnerships - corporate governance for rural women scholarship from Land & Water Australia, Robbie will now be undertaking a company director's course and receive a year of business mentoring.

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