Isolated families seek schooling help as drought costs erase boarding options

Andrew Marshall
Updated August 3 2018 - 9:04am, first published August 1 2018 - 10:30am
Isolated Children's Parents' Association federal conference speakers Lindsay Cane from Royal Far West and Fiona Nash, Charles Sturt University, with federal president, Wendy Hick at this year's Canberra event.
Isolated Children's Parents' Association federal conference speakers Lindsay Cane from Royal Far West and Fiona Nash, Charles Sturt University, with federal president, Wendy Hick at this year's Canberra event.

High school students from remote and drought-savaged rural areas are being pulled out of boarding school with limited chances of continuing their education.

Andrew Marshall

Andrew Marshall

National agribusiness writer

Andrew Marshall is the group agribusiness writer for ACM's state agricultural weeklies and websites. He is a former editor at The Land and has worked in various Rural Press group roles in Canberra, North Richmond (NSW) and Toowoomba (Qld).

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