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While most people her age are busy establishing a career, Katie Cowan wears many hats – juggling motherhood, a business and the occasional bus drive. For the past two years she’s managed the family business, taking over from her father, James.
She joined the company a decade ago, hosting charter tours across the country before driving buses.
The business is located in Sandy Hallow, a small rural town in New South Wales known for coal mining.
The company also provides school runs and has struggled obtaining drivers, but it didn’t mean Cowan sat still; she got her medium rigid licence at the age of 19.
“When I was coming into more responsibility within the business, it was at the time of the mining boom and we were very stretched trying
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