Australian Country

Local hero

The tiny Yorke Peninsula township of Warooka may only have a population of several hundred, but if Steph Ball has anything to do with it, everybody in the country will soon have heard of it.

Steph grew up on a mixed sheep and cropping farm in the district on the road to nowhere much, except for the sleepy fishing and holiday settlements on the peninsula coastline. She married Trevor, “the boy from the next door farm”, and raised their children, Kate, Jamie and Holly, who enjoys a dual life in Australia and the US as folk singer/songwriter Cookie Baker.

And that could have been

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