Kate Dowler has worked in media for 21 years and has a degree in agricultural science. She has a strong connection to rural Australia and what makes it, and its people, tick. Kate has covered state and federal politics, news and commodities – from horticulture, viticulture and broadacre cropping to livestock production. Kate’s goal is to give rural Australians a voice and an avenue to push for transparency and truth, and to help bring urban and country people closer through a better understanding of the bush and its concerns.