Australian Country

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As Emma Rose Munsie looks out from the homestead at Fairview — the NSW farm where she lives with her husband, Sam, and their toddler, Digby — the contrast with her childhood in Northumberland, northern England, couldn’t be more marked. Instead of the closely populated sheep farms of the Cheviot Hills, she’s surrounded by sprawling expanses of native grass and crops where cattle and sheep are fattened. The interior designer, who was accustomed to living 10 kilometres from the nearest village, now finds herself roughly an equidistant 100km from Moree

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