Speakers

Tim Lee is one of Australia’s most prominent and distinguished rural journalists. In a career spanning three decades he has covered all manner stories from all over Australia. Since 2001 he was a mainstay reporter with ABC’s acclaimed “Landline” program. Before that he worked in regional newspapers, radio and on programs including ABC News and “Australian Story.”

Tim worked in regional newspapers and television before joining the ABC’s rural department in 1992. He has worked around Australia as a rural and regional reporter and as a producer on Australian Story. He joined Landline in 2001 and has reported on the biggest issues in rural and regional Australia.

Tim is a regular co-host of the ABC’s Victorian state-wide “Conversation Hour,” usually speaking on regional and rural issues. He is a part-time farmer at Briagolong in eastern Victoria and the author of a number of books, featuring such topics as Australian agricultural history, the wool industry, woolsheds, drovers and fishing. He is also a historian.

Tim Lee’s passion for rural Australia stems from his childhood spent on family farming properties in Gippsland, eastern Victoria. He’s been a woolshed roustabout, rabbit trapper and bushfire fighter.

He’s been awarded a United Nations’ Association Media Peace prize and been named Victorian Rural journalist of the year three times.

Tim is also an historian and author of books on woolsheds, drovers and fishing