Barbara Morison is an Australian radio broadcaster based in Sydney

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station 2SER FM. She specialises in

Country Music Country (also called country and western) is a popular music, music genre originating in the southern regions of the United States, both the American South and American southwest, the Southwest. First produced in the 1920s, country music is p ...

, and has interviewed

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Johnny Cash John R. Cash (born J. R. Cash; February 26, 1932 – September 12, 2003) was an American singer-songwriter. Most of his music contains themes of sorrow, moral tribulation, and redemption, especially songs from the later stages of his career. ...

Waylon Jennings Waylon Arnold Jennings (June 15, 1937 – February 13, 2002) was an American singer, songwriter, musician, and actor. He is considered one of the pioneers of the Outlaw country, outlaw movement in country music. Jennings started playing ...

Keith Urban Keith Lionel Urban ( né Urbahn; 26 October 1967) is an Australian and American country singer, songwriter and guitarist. Recognised with four Grammy Awards, he has also received 15 Academy of Country Music Awards, including the Jim Reeves Int ...

Troy Cassar-Daley Troy Cassar-Daley (born 18 May 1969) is an Australian country music songwriter and entertainer. Cassar-Daley has released thirteen studio albums, two live albums and five compilation albums over 30 years, including the platinum-selling '' The ...

and

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among many others. The host of ''All Kinds of Country'' on since 1981, she was one of the inaugural broadcasters inducted into the

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Broadcasters Hall Of Fame in 1997, awarded the Australian Bush Balladeer Association Achievement Award for services to Australian Country Music in 2013 and the

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award for Legacy Industry in 2024. Morison's mother Irene Morison was also a champion of Australian Country music, privately fundraising in 1991 to have a bust of Buddy Williams produced for the Pioneer's Parader in Tamworth. The bust was the first of a collection that is now a drawcard for the

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, and has since been followed by busts for

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, Gordon Parsons,

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Reg Lindsay Reginald John Lindsay OAM (7 July 1929 – 5 August 2008) was an Australian country music singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer and radio and television personality. He won three Golden Guitar Awards and wrote more than 500 ...

Jimmy Little James Oswald Little, AO (1 March 19372 April 2012) was an Australian Aboriginal musician, actor and teacher, who was a member of the Yorta Yorta tribe and was raised on the Cummeragunja Reserve, New South Wales. Little started his professi ...

, Chad Morgan and others. Morison began broadcasting as a school girl with her mother Irene Morison and later with her faithful dog Diesel, and has been a vital connection for audiences and industry to find each other and build the Australian country music scene locally. She has also championed the best of international country music for Australian audiences. She has also regularly reported on the

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