Kristy O’Brien, a farm girl from Queensland’s Darling Downs, began her television career at 16.
She fell in love with Northern Australia when she moved to the Northern Territory’s Darwin newsroom in 2009.
Kristy is an accomplished documentary producer with a 2012 digital series called Cattle Scars about the fallout of the live cattle export trade to Indonesia.
She was named Screen Producers Australia’s One to Watch for her documentary Tough Ride about the issue of brain injury among young people in regional Australia.
In 2017, she was awarded Best Current Affairs Journalist in the Northern Territory and followed up in 2018 with the South Australia/Northern Territory Rural Journalist of the Year and Best Television Broadcast Reporter for her coverage of regional issues.
Saramat "Tou" Ruchkaew had a successful marketing career in Thailand before she moved to Australia and became one of the NT's biggest mango growers.
Stacey Chapman was born with a heart condition that should have prevented her from living her life to the fullest — and it almost did.
Sawfish have a shark-like body behind an extended nose resembling a saw. A study collecting fishers' knowledge hopes to discover more about the endangered species.
Researchers hope to turn milk protein lactoferrin into a nasal spray, but there are many hurdles to overcome before you'll see it on pharmaceutical shelves.
As more eco-conscious fashionistas move away from fast fashion, a new trade deal with India has created more market potential for Australia's sustainable cotton and wool industry.
Catering to the food needs of India's younger generation is a bountiful business, experts say, with India's average population sitting at 29 years old. And they would rather eat healthy food, providing opportunities for Australian producers.
Mick and Ben Hewitt often do business in boardrooms, but it is clear the brothers are truly content in the dust and dirt.
First Nations rangers and the CSIRO embark on a groundbreaking, space-based surveillance project to track and manage 1,000 wild bovine in remote northern Australia.
Bullo River Station on the edge of the east Kimberley is a cattle station with its gaze firmly fixed on nature. Working with the Australian Wildlife Conservancy, they are demonstrating conservation and pastoral activities can coexist.
Scientists and environmentalists are given unique access to measure and report on how cattle giant Hewitt has been refining its production practices and land management with a greener focus.
In Australia's Top End, Munro Hardy, a modern cattleman, combines traditional ranching with cutting-edge technology. Managing data, targeted nutrition, and carbon mitigation are key focuses for the success of his small cattle station.
Industry members say mental health support is as crucial as physical first aid, after revelations fishers are experiencing mental health issues at twice the rate of the average population.
Muy Keav Ma escaped Cambodia's murderous Khmer Rouge as a child with her family. Australia offered her refuge, and decades on, despite seemingly insurmountable setbacks, she is now a successful mango farmer.
For Andrew Morgan and Dave Wise, a chance meeting at a university bar led not only to a long friendship, but also the creation of Australia's first drowned timber company.
These Margaret River winemakers take the plunge with an experimental batch of wine, naturally stirred by the currents of the Southern Ocean, 10 fathoms down into Flinders Bay.
Angus and Kimberley McKay are quietly building a cattle empire in the desert, making bold purchases and adopting a prudent cattle management plan to look after their land.
In a market where crocodile skin products command a premium price, fashion houses will reject skins that have even the slightest mark — but new research is hoping to change that.
Is it possible Top End Buffalo could be our next wagyu? One Northern Territory producer says they have all the ingredients to be top-notch eating meat.
Leah Samson found not only a niche market, but also a major safety issue she was hell-bent on addressing.
It's a trading of tools that few of us can fathom: from manning the wheel of mega yachts cruising around the French Riviera to where Warwick Hill is today, kneeling under a giant, cranky camel named Honey, attempting to attach a milking device.
Darwin cook and businesswoman Karen Sheldon is a bit like a cyclone; you have the feeling she could plough through anyone or anything if she needed to.
Tess Atie, a Marrathiyel woman, runs the only 100 per cent Indigenous-owned tourism company in the Litchfield National Park area.
While we're fond of looking to the Amazon for our açai berry smoothies, and Peru for our maca powder protein balls, many forget we've got our very own potent superfood back home: the Kakadu Plum.
A farmer swaps high-flying finance for sheep farming and creates an innovative new product on the way.
They were high-powered Sydney lawyers climbing up the corporate ladder and making their mark in their legal careers, but the rat race was wearing thin.