MELISSA DUNIAM’S DAY starts around 6am, when her husband brings her a non-negotiable cup of coffee. As the morning sun peels the fog off the distant Mount Misery, its neighbour and antidote, Mount Sunshine, is revealed and the dairy farmer, horsewoman and business facilitator heads outside to feed hay to her team of five horses.
Just south of Tasmania’s verdant north-west coast, the Duniam family property enjoys a vista of rolling hills all the way to