Read how station ringer Kelly Shotton won the 2026 Rural Women’s Award in the Northern Territory and what it means for rural Australia.
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Drawing on years of hands-on station experience as a ringer, bore runner and station pilot, Ms Shotton developed BoreWatch – a water maintenance reporting platform that enables station staff to document and monitor tanks, bores, troughs, fuel usage and infrastructure across large-scale properties. The platform collates data into automated reports, identifying critical issues and trends without the cost of automated monitoring equipment, while capturing historical records to support long-term planning and retention of operational knowledge. Ms Shotton said BoreWatch was born from firsthand frustration working on the land. “I built BoreWatch out of pure frustration. When you’re on a station, there’s so much critical information getting lost in notebooks, radios or just in people’s heads. I just kept thinking, there has to be a better way to keep track of it all,” Ms Shotton said. “Water is everything on a station. If something goes wrong and you don’t catch it early, it can have a ...