Australian Country Homes

TRADITION WITH A TWIST

It would be hard to imagine a bigger culture shock than the one Kerrie Hayes experienced as a teenager when her family moved to Emerald in central-western Queensland.

“My dad was a sheep farmer who loved growing crops,” she takes up the story. “We’d grown up in Kyneton in Victoria, which might as well have been England for its difference from country Queensland. Everything was

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