At the age of nine Paula Doran planned to be an architect, but dismissed this idea as ludicrous once she heard maths was involved. Instead, she began a career as a journalist, as a country cadet in Colac, Victoria in 1992, and set off on a decade and a half of wonderful adventures.
As a journalist she has lived and worked in Edinburgh, Scotland, where Dolly the Sheep made headlines as the first successful clone and produced Paula's first big international front page story; and a handsome man by the name of Sean Connery laughed at her Australian accent and refused to be interviewed thinking he had received a hoax call...
Paula's adventures continued to East Timor, where as a volunteer, post Indonesian violence, she helped rebuild the Dili-based Radio Timor Kmanek - or Radio Happiness! Whilst also working freelance for The Age Newspaper, and the Sydney Morning Herald.
In 2001 she consolidated her passion for Rural Australia by becoming the first Online Producer for ABC Rural.
As a Rural Radio reporter she travelled to Broken Hill to work for a month...it was to be a quick adventure to spend time with a good friend, and then she was straight back to the 'green' fields of home. Just like that passion for architecture, sometimes the best laid plans are best forgotten...because seven years later, here she is!! Almost a local of Broken Hill's wider suburbs...
