Emily Doak
Wagga Wagga, NSW
Emily Doak is a reporter for ABC Riverina. She's worked as a rural reporter in four states and loves telling the stories of regional Australia.
Emily grew up on a sheep and beef farm in the New England region of NSW and after graduating from Charles Sturt University with a Bachelor of Arts (Broadcast Journalism) joined the ABC as a rural reporter trainee.
She has worked in Tasmania, Queensland, Victoria and New South Wales.
Emily has been based in Wagga Wagga since 2001 and won the NSW Farmers Association Mackellar Media Award for radio broadcast in 2006, 2007 and 2008.
She took some time away from the microphone in 2008 but has returned to the ABC Riverina news room.
Latest by Emily Doak
Farmers double their money as rain washes away dire forecast of hot, dry summer
Livestock prices crashed last year due in part to dire warnings of a hot, dry summer, but rain across the east coast, feedlot demand, and strong export markets have turned things around for many farmers.
What will tougher fuel emission standards mean for the farmer's workhorse, the ute?
All new light vehicle models introduced in Australia will need to meet the Euro 6d standards from December next year. But some in the agricultural community say they are not realistic for farm utes.
Emma left school in Year 11 for a welding career and never looked back
Working as a metal fabricator and livestock truck driver, Emma Godsell says most of her colleagues are men, but it's not something that troubles her.
Made infamous by former links to the mafia, one of NSW's biggest wineries is changing hands
Warburn Estate winery, established in 1968 by a man known as the "don of dons", is sold to a family business best known for processing orange juice.
'Gunshot wounds, snake bites': The young women swapping city life to learn new skills as rural vets
Vet Michelle Noga moved from Sydney to regional NSW, and says living in a country town brings more than just career benefits.
Flour mills were once a symbol of a town's prosperity, but now only a handful remain
Some mills have been given new life as art installations, but this southern NSW mill is still turning local wheat into flour much like it did in 1888.
Timber industry grants to increase high-value Australian production, but is it enough?
A scientist has argued the federal government needs to add another zero to its $70 million package to accelerate the timber industry’s transition to more sustainable practices.
'Cutting-edge' automation has this abattoir back in business, but will there be jobs for skilled workers?
A major upgrade to a southern New South Wales abattoir means the high-tech revamp will reduce the "labour skill component", but management says overall staff numbers will stay the same.
Australian goat meat exports to China surge by 4,000 per cent in a year
Meat and Livestock Australia says the number of goats slaughtered in Australia has risen by almost 50 per cent since 2022 as China's appetite for the product continues to grow.
Going against the flow: The argument for water buybacks to help farmers and the environment
Farmers have blocked NSW streets with tractors to protest water buybacks but some continue to support them, as an academic claims they are three times cheaper than saving water through infrastructure projects.
Farmers take water buyback fight to the streets to keep communities alive
Irrigators who have for more than a decade been fighting "death by 1,000 cuts" water buybacks say it won't just be those on farms who are hurt by proposed changes to the Murray-Darling Basin Plan.
Ferrero Group to rip out Australian hazelnut trees due to unsuitable climate
The Italian company behind Ferrero Rocher and Nutella is giving up on its farm in southern NSW saying the long-term climate is not conducive to hazelnut farming.
From hot-crowbar test to high-tech probes, farmers keen to cut 'huge toll' of haystack fires
Haystack fires are costing farmers millions and new research is investigating how to alert farmers early to the risk of spontaneous combustion.
Chlamydia-free and genetically diverse, this unique koala population is giving conservationists hope
Drones with thermal cameras, DNA testing, sound recorders and AI are being used to study a koala colony brought to the Riverina in the 1970s. Here's what they've found
China wine tariff review 'no silver bullet', but Australian producers hold hope for the future
Wine exports to China have dropped to a low of $10 million a year, but China's announcement it will review tariffs on imports has given a glimmer of hope to the industry.
Failed farm technology has left farmers unable to prove their sustainability credentials, until now
To access key markets now, farmers have to prove they are reducing emissions, protecting biodiversity and saving energy and water, but finding the tech to report on all that has been difficult, until now.
Lloyd is part of a court system which hopes to change the cycle of Indigenous disadvantage
A Wiradjuri elder says showing offenders there are people in their community who take an interest in them is making them more committed to changing their lives.
A private abattoir is being touted as carbon neutral, but neighbours say it's in the wrong place
A proposed $10 million abattoir is part of a cattle producer's ambitious plan to produce carbon neutral beef, but nearby landholders say it will put the local environment at risk.
Varroa mite is common in most parts of the world. This is how they've learned to live with the deadly bee parasite
Australia is still hoping to eradicate the pest but some beekeepers say it is time to manage its presence instead of destroying established hives.
Fears historic rights to livestock water will be restricted as government reviews usage
NSW farmers who own land with river, lake, and estuary frontage have historically had unlimited access to water for livestock and domestic consumption, but their right to the resource is under review.
Orange industry in Australia shrinking to the point of collapse, growers say
There are fears that short-term contracts and low prices for Valencia oranges could force some growers out of the industry.
Beehives permitted to move from almond orchard purple zones
The NSW DPI will allow beekeepers to move hives in Sunraysia and Riverina purple zones subject to a number of conditions.
Deadly varroa mite found in more beehives near Vic-NSW border
The varroa mite is detected in beehives in another almond orchard at Balranald in southern New South Wales, taking the current outbreak in the Sunraysia and Riverina regions to four properties.
Gift of the gab earns teenage auctioneer high praise
A few years ago, Tom Reynolds, 15, was selling toys and toilet paper to the highest imagined bidder to relieve his boredom during the pandemic. Now he and other young people in rural NSW are learning what it's like to sell cattle.
Sister warns 'it will happen again' in her plea for better care for Indigenous inmates
Kamilaroi woman Amber Brown wants the findings of an inquest into her brother's death to prompt the reform of health care for inmates.