Month: May 2016

Happy Mother’s Day

Written by Madalyn Wallace – Country To Canberra Teen Blogger It’s Mother’s Day today which means there’s no better time to reflect on the importance of female friendships. Throughout Australian history, mothers, daughters and friends have stood arm in arm to fight for their working rights, right to vote and right to be elected in Australian Parliament. …

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Kelsey’s Reflection Piece: The trip that motivated a thousand ideas

Kelsey Price is a 16-year-old Middlemount High School student who was the 2015 Country to Canberra Essay Competition winner, representing Queensland. You can read her winning essay here.  Kelsey’s Power Trip was generously sponsored by the Maurice Blackburn Lawyers Women’s Network.  Getting the call, saying that I had won the Country to Canberra essay competition, was the most amazing thing that …

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