Where am I?

By Sonia Ball (QCAR Central District Manager)

Up she goes and what a beauty it is! This week our QCAR signage finally arrived at the doorstep of R&T Pumps in Mackay.  
The QCAR Central District is located on the first floor of R&T Pumps at 8 Tennyson Street, and now even people passing by will see that – it’s colourful and inviting and clearly states who we are as an organisation, and what we do.  
QCAR Central District is a mobile operation travelling throughout the Proserpine, Plane Creek and Mackay districts, so make sure you call first if you’d like to drop in to the office for a meeting rather than on your farm.  
For Plane Creek region mill suppliers, we park up at the QCWA Hall at Koumala every second Wednesday, and soon will be ducking down to Carmila on every third Plane Creek Day.
Catching up with growers is our priority and we can meet anywhere in the district on any other day when this doesn’t suit.
On every alternate Wednesday we are in the Proserpine region, but again able to meet on any other day.
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Changing of the guard
While some of us are relatively new to QCAR, there are a couple of our team members who have been talking, negotiating and working with former Mackay Sugar CEO Jannik Oleyas for years.
On behalf of these members QCAR Central District Chairman Steve McKeering and I dropped in for an informal meeting with Mr Olejas to wish him well in his future pursuits with Nordzuker in Denmark.
As a token of thanks for his role in negotiating the MSL-QCAR CSPA, we engaged award-winning cartoonist Harry Bruce to draw a caricature of Jannik, which we presented at the meeting.
And now as a region we move into a new era with Mackay Sugar where Carl Morton is officially the CEO. The QCAR Central District Committee and I look forward to working closely with Carl going forward.
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Reef Catchments AGM
QCAR Central District attended the recent Reef Catchments AGM hosted by Chair Julie Boyd and CEO Katrina Dent.
There’s a couple of big items on the agenda for Reef Catchments this year with the celebration of their 21st birthday as an incorporated natural resource management organisation, and with this being Chair Julie’s final AGM and year leading the strategic direction of the organisation with the Reef Catchments Board of Directors.
But that’s not all. The Reef Catchments Annual Report is where you can find an overview of all the projects and activities carried out during the financial year 2023 to 2024. You’ll find it at www.reefcatchments.com.au

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