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Agribusiness manager Lee White is building a property of her own

She's a busy woman, but not too busy to answer our nosiest questions...

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PHOTOGRAPHY KATRINA AYERS

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PHOTOGRAPHY KATRINA AYERS

In the latest Graziher magazine (Issue 42), we catch up with Lee White, one of the many unsung rural heroes featured in our 2025 Women of the Land diary. Having started as a bank teller at age 17, Lee went on to become one of the first female agribusiness managers in Queensland. Today, she oversees a team of five professionals — all women — at Rabobank’s Roma office.

Passionate about the cattle game, Lee and her husband, Tim, are determined to give their three children a life on the land. In the magazine article, she talks us through their strategy for acquiring property, which includes leasing and honing in on their market niche. Lee is an incredibly driven woman who’s worked hard to achieve all that she has. Her idea of a weekend wind-down is mustering cattle on one of the family’s small properties. Still, we managed to pin her down to talk about the really important stuff: investment buys, lazy dinners and “sneaky savvy Bs”. Here’s what she had to say…

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PHOTOGRAPHY KATRINA AYERS

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