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A rich, happy childhood on my family\u2019s Central Queensland beef cattle property was the springboard for a varied and interesting life. Primary correspondence school was followed by boarding school, then Economics and Japanese at Queensland University. Early career work with Nippon Steel\u2019s Sydney Office, then key operators in the Japanese steel industries\u2019 dealings with Queensland coal companies, led to an Investment Analyst role in Consolidated Gold Fields Australia Sydney. Marriage and parenthood took me back to Brisbane where I raised my children, trained as a teacher and taught Japanese for many years. Noting the stories of people from regional Australia, their resilience and innovation, has been a constant thread, all the more compelling as so many are being lost.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A rich, happy childhood on my family\u2019s Central Queensland beef cattle property was the springboard for a varied and interesting life. Primary correspondence school was followed by boarding school, then Economics and Japanese at Queensland University. Early career work with Nippon Steel\u2019s Sydney Office, then key operators in the Japanese steel industries\u2019 dealings with Queensland...","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"series":[41],"class_list":["post-244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-committee-members","series-tocah"],"acf":[],"episode_featured_image":false,"episode_player_image":"https:\/\/mytestsite.com.au\/tocah\/wp-content\/plugins\/seriously-simple-podcasting\/assets\/images\/no-album-art.png","download_link":"","player_link":"","audio_player":false,"episode_data":{"playerMode":"dark","subscribeUrls":{"apple_podcasts":{"key":"apple_podcasts","url":"","label":"Apple Podcasts","class":"apple_podcasts","icon":"apple-podcasts.png"},"stitcher":{"key":"stitcher","url":"","label":"Stitcher","class":"stitcher","icon":"stitcher.png"},"google_podcasts":{"key":"google_podcasts","url":"","label":"Google Podcasts","class":"google_podcasts","icon":"google-podcasts.png"},"spotify":{"key":"spotify","url":"","label":"Spotify","class":"spotify","icon":"spotify.png"}},"rssFeedUrl":"https:\/\/mytestsite.com.au\/tocah\/feed\/podcast\/tocah","embedCode":"

Cynthia Dodd<\/a><\/blockquote>