Rural women have just two weeks remaining to get their applications in for the RIRDC Rural Women’s Award 2007, before it closes on World Rural Women’s Day –15 October 2006.

The 2007 Award supports women with a strong and positive vision for the future of rural Australia and is open to all women involved in agriculture, including broad acre and intensive livestock and cropping enterprises, horticulture, forestry, fisheries, natural resource management and related service industries.

The RIRDC Rural Women’s Award 2007 provides a Bursary of $10,000 for each of the seven State and Territory winners’ and the opportunity for State and Territory winners and runners up to attend the prestigious Australian Institute of Company Directors’ course.

The 2007 Award also provides the opportunity for one of the seven State and Territory winners to be selected as the RIRDC Rural Women’s Award 2007 Australian Winner and Runner Up, to represent the Award in highlighting at a national level the contribution women make to rural Australia.

The Award is an initiative of the Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation in partnership with the State Government Departments of Agriculture and Primary Industries. The three major national sponsors of the Rural Women’s Award 2007 are ABC Radio, Rural Press Ltd and The Australian Women’s Weekly.

Application forms are available from RIRDC (phone 02 6272 4819), State Departments of Agriculture & Primary Industries, ABC Radio Regional Stations or can be downloaded from the Award website: www.ruralwomensaward.gov.au

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Media inquiries:
RIRDC Rural Women’s Award 2006 National Coordinator Edwina Clowes
Phone 0417 727 544 or clowesedwina@bigpond.com