Fiona Nash is Strategic Adviser - Regional Engagement for Charles Sturt University. Having grown up in Sydney, Fiona has spent the last couple of decades living and working in regional Australia. For many years she was involved in a farming enterprise in the NSW central west, which her sons Will and Henry are now running. She spent twelve years in the Federal Parliament as a Senator for NSW and also held ministerial positions including Rural Health, and in Cabinet the positions of Regional Development, Regional Communications and Local Government and Territories. She also held the position of Deputy Leader of the Nationals.