Tara de Landgrafft

Tara de Landgrafft is the Rural and Resources reporter for ABC Goldfields-Esperance.

The eternal nomad, Tara de Landgrafft has been trooping over the country-side from a very young age. Growing up on a wheat and sheep farm in the 'good country' of Dunn Rock, south east of Newdegate in WA's south, Tara felt a connection to the land from a very young age. She took her first trip to a Cooperative Bulk Handling (CBH) receival site at the tender age of eight months, in a baby seat strapped to the truck.

Tara attended Lake King primary school where she quickly made friends with the other five students in her class before being shipped off to Penrhos College for 5 years of high school. Tara soon realised that hockey is the same wherever you go and soon settled into boarding school life in Perth, albeit with some protest about the uniform!

Tara completed her TEE and took some time off before commencing her Bachelor of Agribusiness at Curtin University Muresk, where she majored in marketing and cropping systems and attended many a B&S ball.

After finishing study full-time, Tara again packed up her trusty ute and swag and made her way to Perth. Tara has worked throughout rural industries, everywhere from seeding and harvesting crops, to the offices of grain handlers. Tara joined ABC rural in Perth and also enjoyed a summer-stint at ABC in Geraldton.

In her spare time enjoys a drink or two with her mates, grabbing her board and heading for the beach or even putting in the occasional hour or two of study for her journalism degree. So if you see Tara in her blue ute somewhere amongst the countryside, give her a wave as she's sure to wave back.