Chinchilla

That's where this data centre is planned for, and you can see underneath the data centre there, there's three gas-fired power stations.

In Chinchilla, north of Dalby, Shae Dougal earned her PhD researching the impacts of the coal seam gas industry on the Western Downs.

Now she's looking at how another industry could reshape this agricultural region.

Because it's such a massive user of energy and water, this area, which has become energized through the use of fossil fuel, unconventional gas, renewables, uh, solar, wind, BESS, it's created a energy-enabled landscape that's drawing in energy-enabled industries like AI.

He says, "You gotta go to Brisbane." I said, "Oh, fucking righto." So just, I mean, Brisbane, Sydney to Brisbane, that's piece of piss.

And then he goes, "Oh, you gotta go from, uh, Brisbane to Chinchilla."

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When I got to Brisbane, I said, "Where the fuck's that?"

That didn't fucking work.

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And I'm like, "Oh, Chinchilla." So I go over Dalby and fucking all the way out there.

I'm like, literally I had 13 hours experience, 'cause I only drove from Sydney to Brisbane.

She's speaking there to Sam Parry.

Now, Queensland, of course, is a big producer of melons in Australia, including your districts around Chinchilla, up to Bundaberg, to the Burdekin.

I'm also seeing up towards the Lakelands district in Cairns.

Melons Australia CEO Jonathan Davey says when it comes to the Monosporascus detection in the Northern Territory, the current advice for Queensland growers is to stay alert.

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So, so when I was, like, uh, just 18, so I, I grew up in Chinchilla and, and I moved to Sydney, from Chinchilla to Sydney, so it was a bit of a culture shift, to go down there and play football.

Anyway, when I got down there with all those blokes that were fit and strong and fast and, you know, way bigger than me, uh, they'd all been around that sort of lifestyle, I guess, for a long time.

So everyone, like, you know, shaved their legs and arms and chest and some of the trainers that would work, you know, in the club wouldn't wanna give you a rub down before the game if you had hair.

I wonder what you can get with that money.

Well, it's what a charbray bull from Chinchilla sold for this week at the National Charbray Bull Sale in Greysmere, just outside of Rockhampton.

And it's the most expensive charbray bull sold in Australia.

Now, it's heading to Ethan and Chrissy Horrocks Paddock in Biloela in central Queensland.

I guess moving forward with a bull of that calibre, we're trying to increase, like always trying to forever increase our genetics.

Yeah, record Charbray bull.

$70,000, that bull came from Chinchilla.

It sold this week at Graysmere.

Get along with Stephen really well.

He's another one, doesn't really give advice, but if you listen to what he's talking about... it's in there like a lot of the old boys it's the conversation they have with you they're not telling you advice but if you listen um dave lacey at stanford but the at the queensland supreme just had a conversation with me between a couple of my runs which didn't help on the scoreboard but helped me um so you know um yeah and barry knight's always good he'll always um give you home truths to say good run if it wasn't you know yeah and jeff's the same jeff will always very rarely is it an outstanding run he'll give you what you've done wrong so but yeah those people i guess jeff jeff sort of on his way out of trialing which is a bit of a shame but i did manage to get him once before he did i won my first open was I beat him at the Queensland Supreme in Chinchilla, which was quite good to beat him.

You know, like it came down to the last, it was only the two of us that could win it.

So that was quite good, I guess, to beat your mentor.