Originally from Newcastle, Tess Bellia moved when she was 17 to work at a racing stud more than seven and a half hours away to Warwick in Queensland.
She found the country to be her natural habitat.
“I prefer being away from big cities and all of that. It’s always been something I’ve disliked - being too far in and too many houses near each other,” Tess said.
She spent a year in Warwick before taking up a work trial “in the middle of stuff-all” on King Island, an area about . . .
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