LATE at night on a station about 160kms out of Cobar, Kate Lauritsen-Graham sews button-up blouses for rodeo riders while her joey, Zoey watches from the comfort of a pillowcase pouch beside her.

“I spend the day working fixing fences, on the motorbike, cleaning troughs, general station hand work, and I don’t often have days off,” Ms Lauritsen-Graham said.

“So when I clock off for the da...