Australian Country

From reel life to reality

The old adage that you don’t know what’s around the corner couldn’t have been more accurate back in 2009 when Clare Warby settled down for a quiet night in, watching TV with her mother.

Pretty much on a whim they tuned into Farmer Wants a Wife just in time to catch the pitch from the next crop of farmers calling for female applicants to join the upcoming series. “Scott’s shot came up and he was introduced as a farmer from Mungindi,” Clare recalls. “Mum pointed out that she and Dad

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