A face-to-face invitation eight months ago helped bring Prime Minister Scott Morrison to Albury for this week's NSW Country Women's Association conference.
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Murray group president Genevieve Knobel broached the subject when Mr Morrison visited the Border last September.
"I asked him boldly then would he come and he said he'd love to," she said.
"Once the election date was fixed, I didn't think any more about it, I didn't think he would be able to come, so it was a big surprise."
The annual conference ended on Friday after five days of business sessions, workshops, displays and social events involving the 460 delegates and other visitors.
Mrs Knobel said the focus on the egging of Mr Morrison by a woman who was not a CWA member on Tuesday soon dissipated.
"I don't think it had a major effect on the conference, it was just more of a disappointment," she said.
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New state president Stephanie Stanhope, of Bega, who was elected on Wednesday, said the CWA needed to maintain its links with state and federal governments.
"We are seen by political parties as being an influential and a powerful lobby group," she said.
"What we are lobbying for, to me, just makes sense.
"And as I've got to know more and more people, members around the state, I'm just realising all the time what an absolutely marvellous group of women belong to the organisation."
Ms Stanhope said many of the motions put up by individual branches resonated among members, for example seeking clarity about drought assistance schemes.
"Basically in a rural area, if the farmers aren't supporting a local business, businesses fail as well, one is dependent on the other," she said.
Another motion called for tighter regulations on the use of drones, which could be sent over farms by others.
"Yes, there are legitimate uses for drones, but there also can be a quite invasive effect on everyone's privacy," Ms Stanhope said.
"People need to know what the rules are and what the limits are and stick to them."
The conference voted to request the federal government hold an independent inquiry into the green field routes and funding for the inland rail project.
Mrs Knobel said the CWA wished to contribute to an ongoing discussion on proposed routes.
"They really need to revisit that in as much as the topography and geography, because there are areas where it's going to be going through very flat areas, which are subject to flooding," she said.
"If they're going to build up for a rail line, that water will be coming back into properties and causing quite a bit of destruction."
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