From the leafy streets of Toorak to the dusty plains of Parkes, Andrea Hamilton-Vaughan has led a varied and interesting life.
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While in her early 20s Mrs Hamilton-Vaughan started a career in cosmetics that saw her study in Paris for six months for Landcome.
Later on she worked in national promotions for book distribution company Gordon and Gotch, where she mingled with well known Australians such as eye surgeon Fred Hollows who she used to drive around, and she attended a book launch for cricketer Max Walker in the Northern Territory.
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However, for the past 18 years Mrs Hamilton-Vaughan has lived in Parkes where she still lives with her husband of 30 years, James Hamilton-Vaughan and their five rottweilers.
In the past 18 months through mostly dietary changes, and more recently increased exercise she lost 75 kilograms.
Mrs Hamilton-Vaughan said she moved to Parkes because her husband got a job there and although they live in town they also have a 1500 acre property where they grazed beef cattle and sheep, which had to be destocked due to the drought, as well as between 20 to 30 alpacas and her sister's horses.
The laws are different in America but in Nebraska they are sharing my drink-driving messages.
- Andrea Hamilton-Vaughan
Mrs Hamilton-Vaughan is now best known as the passionate road safety officer for Orange and Cabonne councils. Her latest campaigns included the Be Seen Be Safe visibility campaign that encouraged people to drive with their headlights on in all conditions day or night.
Her messages have spread as far the the USA, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates.
"The laws are different in America but in Nebraska they are sharing my drink-driving messages," Mrs Hamilton-Vaughan said.
As well as commuting from Parkes to Orange each day she said she has also driven to Perth, Adelaide, Sydney and Melbourne as part of her job and as a result is passionate about educating other driver's about the danger of driver fatigue.
"It's one of the three biggest killers on Australian roads, there's no test," Mrs Hamilton-Vaughan said. "For passengers in the car please do not go to sleep while the driver is driving the car."
She advised people not to drive when they would normally be asleep.
"One thing I've learned from working with the families of victims of road safety is [grief] doesn't end after a funeral, it goes on and one and on," she said.
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