Author Event - Rachael Treasure In Conversation - Casterton Library
Schedule
Thu, 20 Nov, 2025 at 01:00 am
UTC+11:00Location
77 Henty St, Casterton VIC 3311, Australia | Hamilton, VI
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Join Glenelg Libraries for a very special event with much loved Tasmanian-born author Rachael Treasure. Rachael will visit with her beloved Dolly Pupton to chat all things dog training featured in her book Dog Speak, as well as life as a best-selling author of contemporary rural fiction. Rachael first wrote Dog Speak in 2007 as part of a Rural Women’s Bursary when she won Tasmanian Rural Woman of the Year. Her aim back then was to encourage more rural women to jump the fence into the world of working dog training.
This revised edition is now a must read for all humans, young and old, male or female who want a better connection with their dog, whether a city pooch or a working dog.
Dog Speak covers the basics of puppy training for all dogs, showing Rachael’s techniques of integrating dogs into family life with children and other animals, including horses.
The book reveals her methods of foundation training for working dogs based on the concepts of many leading Australian stockmen and dog educators.
Tasmanian-born Rachael Treasure is a best-selling author, regenerative agriculturalist, and mother.
As a young country woman in the 1990s, she saw a profound disconnection emerging between the land and women as industrial agricultural systems began to erode environmental and human health. Rachael set her sights on becoming a rural journalist and writing a bestseller so she could showcase contemporary rural women. Drawing on her experiences working as a jillaroo and a ringer on a Queensland cattle station, she published her first novel Jillaroo, in 2002.
Rachael has travelled widely, writing wherever she goes. She has worked a number of jobs as a jillaroo, professional wool classer, veterinary nurse, rural journalist, stock camp cook, high country cattle drover, truffle sniffer dog handler and family farm manager.
She now lives near Orielton, Tasmania, with her grown children and a collection of blissfully indulged animals, including a self-opinionated goat called Barbara Gordon. Her eighth novel Milking Time is a story designed to spark a rural women’s rebellion.
Rachael’s daily work on the farm means she never has fancy nails and despite her international acclaim she remains ‘Tassie-as’.
Thursday 20 November 2025
Casterton Library
11.00am – 12.00pm
Portland Library
Libraries After Dark
6.30pm – 7.30pm
FREE events, light refreshments provided
Bookings preferred, phone 5522 2265 or visit your local library branch
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