“You don’t have to be the loudest, most extroverted person to be a leader.”
Growing up in the Upper Hunter town of Dungog, NSW, Jessica Watson harboured a quiet certainty that her future belonged somewhere in regional Australia. She wasn’t sure where, but she knew city life was not for her. It took an unexpected, last minute shift in her university placement schedule during COVID to discover that her future was in Broken Hill in Far West, NSW.
