NQLIRA on the job
2019
On appointment as Chairman and CEO of the North Queensland Livestock Industry Reconstruction Agency, Shane Stone and Agency staff travelled through the flood-impacted area in North West Queensland to meet with those affected by the monsoon of January 2019. The Agency came with a message of hope and quickly engaged with those impacted. From council meeting rooms to roadhouses, stockyards to kitchen tables, chats on the sides of the road and in the coffee shops over a cuppa, people shared their stories. Emotionally this was a very confronting experience. Farm visits were organized by a host family and neighbours invited to attend. All NQLIRA staff were obligated to participate in such visits to farms, cane, aquaculture and horticulture enterprises, the country towns and small businesses impacted. Shane Stone was strongly of the view that Canberra based bureaucrats needed to get dirt under their nails, mud on their boots and travel the vast distances to understand the remoteness and challenges of Northern Australia. Meeting of a Charities Round Table in Mt Isa well into the recovery period.
- Document type: Photo
- Time periods: NQLIRA, Australian Public Service
- People: Karla BRIDGES, Nico PADAVAN
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