Queensland Country Life senior journalist Sally Gall has taken out her third Rural Press Club of Queensland print journalism accolade.
Throughout 2020, Ms Gall highlighted the inequity of boarding school students being unable to return home to the family farm during school holidays, or to return to school when others were able to.
Ms Gall's series of stories, titled Bordering on Ridiculous, championed the rights of students and their families during the height of COVID-19 restrictions.
"It's always the highest honour to be awarded an accolade by your peers and I'm very humbled to be chosen again," Ms Gall said.
"Families from rural parts of the state make great emotional and financial sacrifices to educate their children and I'm just as pleased to have been able to highlight the extra, unnecessary burden placed on them this year.
"I was unable to attend the ceremony in Brisbane on Wednesday but to have Isolated Children's Parents' Association Qld immediate past president Tammie Irons accept the award on my behalf was very fitting.
"I'm also very fortunate to work for the Bible of the Bush and to uphold its reputation as the voice of rural Queensland."
