Mother, cattle producer, advocate for rural and remote families. Amber Driver represents the typical station woman. Amber and John live at her husband’s family Cattle Station in the remote NT. Over 300km dirt-road and 100km of bitumen form her ‘long road’ into town. For many moths over the wet season, this road is closed and access to home is only gained by air.
Amber is well placed to discuss the geographical barries that exist when discussing equity of access to Education for Rural and Remote Families.
Like many station women, Amber wears many hats including flying the Cessna 206, keeping the up with office workload, supporting cattle mustering, being involved industry groups and volunteer work – all productive & future focused, embracing the opportunity to support her community with her advocacy.
Born in QLD, growing up on a cattle and mixed cropping farm between Narrabri & Wee Waa NSW, Amber attended a local primary school in Narrabri and went on to complete 6 years at Boarding School in Tamworth. Since then, Amber has lived and worked within the NT Cattle Industry for over 28 years.
Amber has been a strong advocate and volunteer for community groups such as the School of the Air, ICPA, Harts Range Rodeo and the Northern Territory Cattlemen's Association since moving to the Northern Territory in 1999. A finalist for the 2018 Rural Women’s Awards helped Amber realise her passion to encourage people to take on new roles to serve both the rural sector and the community. In 2025 Amber accepted a position on the NT Pastoral Lands Board.
Amber joined Alice Springs ICPA Branch around 2008. Since joining ICPA she has dedicated 10 years to the Branch Executive (4 years as Branch President, 3 years as branch Vice President and various other positions) and was a co-convenor and host of the 2017 ICPA Federal Conference held in Alice Springs.
Amber and John have two children: Sonny and Ruben. Both of the boys completed their primary school with distance education delivered through the Alice Springs School of the Air. This was a 15-year journey delivering school lessons from the remote station homestead. Both boys access their secondary schooling at Boarding School in Adelaide as there are no local secondary school options (other than more remote lessons at the homestead ‘kitchen table’) Sonny completed Year 12 in 2022 and Ruben is currently in Year 9, 2026.
Ambers passion for helping develop strong and caring communities for geographically isolated families and the pastoral industry remain high on her agenda to this day.
