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John Campbell
Farmer/Grazier, Taloona
Meet John Campbell
Tell us about the initial contact with Origin
I think people are really worried about how their land is going to be devalued or possibly devalued by the usage of coal seam gas and that sort of thing. They were very good in their initial request. I think other companies that have approached us have perhaps been a little blasé and I am very happy with the way Origin handled our problems.
Working together with Origin
The people that we were dealing with know our problems, they understand our problems that we are having on the land. Be it gates, fences and that sort of thing that are left unrepaired. They fully understand. They have a good Liaison Officer in control in each area be that Roma or Condamine. So they have people, so that as a land holder, I can go to if there are any problems. The next person up the chain is always willing to help and if need be, we have had good discussions with people right at the top so I think it is a really good system they have in place. They do care about the people they are dealing with, number one is because they are going to be there for a long time as far as the Origin management are concerned. As far as the men are concerned, if there are problems I know the Origin management are quick to sort out any problems, to straighten out any problems that may be occurring with workplace problems. Origin has never quibbled when we have asked them to pay mustering costs if we believe they have left a gate open by one of their men. Compensation includes new gates, grids, that they put in across a lot of the easements. I know this helps Origin but this also helps us on our property runs. They put in roads for us which helps our maintenance of a lot of our areas and provides better access to the rest of our property. They did put a gravel road to one of our main houses on our properties and that to me was an extremely beneficial thing for both us and for Origin. It really helped us because we only had black soil before that.
What are some typical landowner concerns?
Another thing that is worthwhile pointing out is the bitumen road between our main town and Roma was in an appalling state and I don’t think the local government would have ever been able to rebuild the road. At present we have probably shoulders on most of the road which is a distance of 80kms. We also have a bitumen road right passed our front gate which would never have happened if the gas company wasn’t there so that’s real benefit to us. I think it is an ongoing thing that we are going to have and yes I think Origin and the Campbell family have a good relationship and I hope that it will continue into the future. I think it is a win-win situation for both of us.
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Owen and Janine York
Farmer/Grazier, Wonga Park
Meet Owen York
We’ve been just about four generations of Yorks have been in Wallumbilla. I’ve been here all my life, 36 years, on this property, and Dad’s been here, well, he’s worked on the farm all his life too.
How Origin did keep you informed?
Yeah, it’s quite good. With the liaison officers, you can ring them any time and talk to them about any problems you’ve got and they seem to get straight on to it and fix the things up and during the operation they’ll tell you what’s going on part by part and make sure the gates and everything’s all shut at the end of the day. It sort of keeps things going quite good. And after the crop’s been finished they’re going to come back through and tidy any bad spots or washes, erosions, fix the condor banks up how we want them, make it back to the same way it used to be.
Working together works well Owen?
Yeah it’s good. They seem to be pretty easy to talk to and that’s the main thing. You can ring them any time if you have any problems. You know, it’s good to have that one on one conversation with them. It’s better than when you’re on the phone talking to somebody that’s miles and miles away that’s hard. If it’s not one on one it’s pretty hard to know, talking to a person that you don’t really know. It’s good that you can voice your own opinion, put a fair bit of input into the rehabilitation at the end. To have it how you want it on your property so it doesn’t upset you too much at the end of the day. As long as everything turns out how you want it, it’s pretty good. The liaison officers, they try to do anything that you want to be done at the end of the day.
So farming and coal seam gas can coexist?
Yes, I think they can. If you can work with the company and they can work with you and you don’t have loggerheads together, you can sort things out. You should be able to coexist with coal seam gas. We’ve got to get the energy out of Australia sooner or later so we’ve got to develop with these companies. I think if they can be along with the farmers then things will work out not too bad in the end.
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Selwyn and Jocelyn Maller
Farmer/Graziers, Glenora Downs
Meet Selwyn and Jocelyn Maller
I’m Selwyn Maller. I’m actually third generation in this area. I’m Jocelyn. I’ve been here on this land with Selwyn for 22 years now. I think I’m called a local. I’m nearly a local. We have three children. Two sons and a daughter and the two boys ‑ there’s three children but the two boys at this stage are involved in rural businesses so they seem to enjoy the rural life as well.
How did you feel when you were first approached by Origin?
When we were first approached by Judy to do the exploratory well we were a little bit nervous because we’d heard of plenty of stories from other people about other companies and so we were quite keen to have that discussion with Judy and I have to say that our fears have certainly been put to rest. Judy’s been very good to deal with, as has Origin, so anything to do with any of our requests have been fulfilled and we find Origin to be very, very good to deal with.
What would you say to others about Origin?
I would have to say from our experience and from what I have seen we wouldn’t have any problems or any hesitations whatsoever in recommending that we could coexist with the rural industry and the coal seam gas industry on the one property. I don’t see with the opening of Taloona. I can’t see that there would be any problems whatsoever. Bring it on.
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Robyn Nixon
Farmer/Grazier, Devoncourt
Meet Robyn Nixon
I’ve been in this area for about 30 years, raising a family here. Mainly grazing country and we do farm with some forage crops and a bit of grain.
What does Origin do on your property?
Origin has a gas pipeline running the full width of one of our properties, taking gas from the Injune gasfield to the Braemar power station. It doesn’t seem to be having any great impact on our cattle or business in any way. It’s revegetating well and, yeah, it’s no problem at all.
How have you found Origin?
Origin have been very professional in the way they’ve liaised with us. They’re very punctual. They always call before they’re coming in, and no, we’ve found their liaison part of the contract really great. They certainly are friendly and very approachable. We have had experience with other pipelines and certainly a much different attitude taken. We kind of feel that this is our country and that it’s your privilege to come on and other people, other lines have come through and considered it their right.
What would you say to others Robyn?
Yeah, I think anybody that’s going to have dealings with Origin would be wise to be upfront with your needs and they are very, very agreeable to change things or to organise around you as much as possible. I think be upfront right from the start.
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Simon and Kylie Drury
Farmer/Graziers, Condabri
Meet Simon and Kylie Drury
We have Condabri one, two, three, four they call them, the wells, as well as an evaporation pond on the next‑door property. Just at the moment they’re just a pilot project so they’re just flaring the gas off at the moment. From what we can hear, the people in the know tell me that it’s been quite successful as far as gas production goes. I think the flare seems to get bigger and bigger. They’re only new. They’ve only been in probably three or four months and they’re going very well from what I can gather.
How does having gas on your property affect running your business?
Well, really there’s minimal impact. I mean, the stamp that the well makes is, I don’t even know the dimensions but it’s very, very small and it’s very quiet and you often see the cattle, you know, playing beside the fence, sort of thing. After the initial drilling and everyone’s gone, there’s really no impact at all. And while it was all happening there was good benefits, you know, there was gravel roads that they did for us and they couldn’t have been more helpful. Bits of poly pipe here and there and, yeah, they all, they came in and they all had their vehicles weeded and seeded so there’s no threat of any foreign partheniums or anything like that. They’re very, very rigid on that and all the people you deal with are just very, very decent people. They give you plenty of notice when they come. Like, they just don’t turn up and say, “We’re going to drill a well on your place or we’re going to go and do something,” and then when they do want to do seismic roads or something like that they say to you, “What sort of gate do you want,” and of course I say, “Well, I want a double set of gates because it’s really no more material, it’s sort of just an extra gate,” so you’ve got a big gateway to drive your machinery through and at zero cost to us. I mean, they’re excellent to deal with.
What would you say to others?
Well there’s a lot of probably negativity or fear or something of the unknown that’s really what’s going to happen but from our experience, you know, I’d almost encourage them because of course there’s ‑ you’re getting something for it, like, they’re not coming in and drilling a hole on your place and taking everything away, you’re getting an income out of it so to some people in second‑rate country it’s been absolutely wonderful, I mean they’re making a living out of it. I’d encourage people not to be fearful of it, to embrace it, because really we can’t do anything about it so let’s sort of step on board and the beautiful thing is all our kids are going to get employment. I mean, the gas industry and the natural resource industry is the best thing that’s ever happened to this area. Years ago when I was on council I used to sit around in the office and scratch our heads and say, “What are we going to do with our kids, you know, in five years time when they come out of school. How are they going to get employed? Are we going to have to send them to the city? Are they going to have to go somewhere else to gain employment or get an income?” But now, everyone can work from home or the family structure and the fabric of all the society here doesn’t have to just disperse, you know. And we’ve got one boy who’s an electrician, he’s doing an apprenticeship so he’s working locally. The other boys, admittedly they’ve got to go away to school, but they’ll be able to come home and gain employment in either for us, for mum and dad in our business, or locally in the huge big industry that’s just coming to us. We’re just on the verge of it. Like, it’s just only going to get bigger and bigger. It’s pretty exciting really. Really good.
What about Origin’s Landowner Liaison Officers?
They certainly lost the mould with Judy anyway. But, look, we found Judy, ever since we met Judy, and Judy was the first face of Origin that we’ve ever known and she’s been absolutely excellent. Very, very hard to fault. And become reasonably good friends, you know. She’s a good mate now because she’s just the sort of person she is. She’s the face of Origin out here and anything you want, ring Jude and she’ll sort you.
How about the community benefits?
I guess that having that assurance that there is such a big industry around this area now, that they do have a lot more scope and they have a lot more ability to come out can here and have jobs, whereas before, especially with the local industry, it seemed to be dying a bit, but now it’s picked up and there are young people who are going into the trades and Origin is so kindly giving scholarships to these young apprentices and it’s just made all the difference to them.
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Michael and Becky Hayes
Farmer/Graziers, Murilla
Meet Michael and Becky Hayes
How have you found working with Origin?
Yeah, we find Origin great. Their communication with us as land holders is excellent. Will and Judy are always in contact with us letting us know what’s going on.
What does Origin do on your property?
Yeah, Origin have wells on two of our properties and they maintain our roads and do all the right things by us. If there’s any activity going on, they’re the first to let you know and the improvements they’ve put in to gain access to those wells has been great, we’re really happy with that. We just find them really professional to deal with.
What would you say to others?
I’d say you could nearly embrace Origin, you know, they’re great. A great company to deal with. The professional standards they bring and the people you’re involved with is inspiring in some ways.
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June Dougall
Farmer/Grazier, Drildool
Meet June Dougall
How was the consultation process?
They explained everything to us, and went out of their way not to put anything near where the cattle were watering or drive past the house and gave us time to think about it. They paid for the use of the site where they camped and for the road area they use. They actually did more than they promised. They were very good.
What would you say to others June?
We thought Origin gave us a fair go they were excellent the way they treated us.
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Ron Carr
Farmer/Grazier, Beelbee
Meet Ron Carr
Is coal seam gas good for the area?
I don’t think you can stop the progress, that’s what I say about any gas line and any farmer. We don’t have to worry about ourselves it’s the children we have got to worry about. It’s the next generation and the generation after that. They cannot survive without the gas or anything.
Pipeline Rehabilitation
It’s all covered, you don’t see it, it goes through your property. Where do you see it? It’s got two foot of grass over it, where before it would have only had 5 inches of grass, all natural pastures that cows wouldn’t eat, but now the cows would use that in it’s the place.
How does Origin treat locals?
Yeah I think Origin gives them all a fair go, all the locals a fair go for what they have done for me and they would have to do that for all the other land holders and anything in the town. I think they would be for all support groups. I don’t think I have ever had any problems with Origin. Problems can be solved then and there, there would not be any problems in the wide world. I think they are a really top crew of people and that’s from the bottom to the top.
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Kevin Brennan
Origin Landowner Liaison Officer
Meet Kevin Brennan
My name’s Kevin Brennan. I am a liaison officer, Landowner Liaison Officer with Origin Energy. I grew up in the local area. I was born in Chinchilla and have grown up there. I’ve got a family property there where we run cattle now. We did have sheep for a long time, sheep and cattle.
What do you do away from work Kevin?
I spend as much time with my wife and family as I can. I’ve got young children so I enjoy spending as much time as I can with them and also working at home with the cattle.
Tell us about your approach to working with land owners.
Yeah, as a land owner myself and somebody who is having these developments, gas developments and coal developments taking place on their own property, I have some sort of understanding of what other landowners go through when developments take place on their place so I try to look for win‑win situations, things that can be of benefit to land owners and look for opportunities and positives to come out of the impacts that will take place. And, yeah, generally just look for win‑win situations. I guess having somebody who’s familiar with the local area is a benefit in so far as they have a better understanding of production systems and also the fact that if you’re living in the community, well, you’re more accountable as well, I think, and if you’re a member of that community, well, you want to make sure that you’re doing the right thing by other members of the community.
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Greg McNamara
Origin Landowner Liaison Officer
Meet Greg McNamara
My name’s Greg McNamara. I’ve been with on Origin for nearly 12 months. I originally came from agriculture. I’ve been involved with agriculture for 25 years in a farming background and a research background and also cropping agronomy.
A good agricultural background
Yes, with an agricultural background it’s very important to talk to land owners about different situations they have on their properties. Different land owners ‑ all land owners are different in the fact that they have different issues.
A farming background is important?
Yes, farming is a very different situation and not all farms are the same. They have different issues. Some of them are on light soil, some are on a heavier soil, some are in cropping situations, some are in a grazing situation so as someone with a broad experience across a whole range, it’s very important that we can talk to them about the issues that we have on the properties.
Tell us about working with landowners.
I enjoy working with landowners mainly because I’ve been involved with the rural people for 25 years or so and it’s always interesting working with these people and talking to them about the situations that they have and working out how the coal seam gas industry can fit into their agricultural operation on their properties.
What are your hobbies?
My hobbies and interests are a hobby farm. My main hobbies and interests are a beef cattle operation, I’ve got a small 100 acre hobby farm just north of Dalby and there we have all sorts of animals on it. We have dogs, cats, chooks, yes, and then we have Brahman cross cattle which is one of our major hobbies and also there’s enough room for have motorbikes and buggies and other things that the kids can play with.
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Damien Morris
Origin Landowner Liaison Officer
Meet Damien Morris
I’ve lived in the Surat Basin for probably going on 10 years or more and spent most of my educational years here and most of my working career in the Surat Basin and Darling Downs. My wife and I live in Chinchilla and are supporting the local housing industry in Chinchilla and hopefully we’ll raise our children in the area.
What do you like to do away from work?
When I’m not working for Origin, I enjoy my time off involved in the polo cross club in Chinchilla and travelling around the area for that and enjoy the quiet time at home with my wife.
What’s your attitude to working together?
In my opinion, the best thing that we can do when working with land owners is have open communication between, obviously, land owners and ourselves, that we give as much information as possible and in turn the land owners inform us any time that they’re unhappy with our activities or happy with our activities, positive and negative feedback. Issues can’t be resolved if we’re not aware of them.
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Will Nothdurft
Origin Landowner Liaison Officer
Meet Will Nothdurft
I’m living in Chinchilla at the moment. I was born and raised in Chinchilla. Spent a bit of time over in Western Australia but came back home. You always come home to your family, I suppose, people you know.
Yeah, my family had a family farm at Chinchilla and a farm out at Blackall. Family had a transport and earth moving business as well so we were sort of fairly well known in the district.
You’re a water skier?
Yes, water skiing’s a bit of a passion of our family’s. We’ve always been water skiing. I’ve purchased a ski boat in the last couple of years as a way of keeping the family together. It’s a good community‑based ski club.
What’s your approach?
Yes. One of the best parts about being a Landowner Liaison Officer is working together with the landowner. We realise that we’re intruding on their property and their privacy but if we can work out access and fence signs, gates, grids to suit their needs and still get the well on their property at the end of the day, I think it’s a win‑win for both land owner and Origin.
One example of working with the landowner that comes to mind is Origin were wanting to put on access through a fence line and during discussions I realised the gateway and grid there would be of no advantage to the landowner and I asked if it was possible to put the access 500 metres up the fence line at his front gate and give him a proper entrance, gates and grids and a lead‑in and the landowner was fairly impressed that we would go out of our way to do that for him because we had to put extra roads in, that sort of thing, to suit, and that just comes to mind as one example of working with the landowner.
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Judy Green
Origin Landowner Liaison Supervisor
Meet Judy Green
I’ve actually lived in Chinchilla for nearly two years but before that I’ve been with Origin now for nine years. I started off at Yellow Bank which is a gas plant west of Injune then I moved to Moura which is a small mining town and then from there to Roma and now to here so I’ve lived in a lot of regional communities.
Tell us about your interests
On my time off I like to travel. I’ve got friends all over different parts of Australia and I like to catch up with those and take my daughter to visit people. Yeah, Australia’s such a big place and there’s so many interesting things to do and see so I generally like to get away to somewhere different.
What’s your approach to working with landowners?
I think we need to always recognise that it’s their properties and we need to work with them. We need to look at what impact we are going to have and how we can minimise it and understand where they’re coming from when they’ve got concerns. Also to ask about what we’re doing and go out on the properties with them and have a look at how we’re going to impact and just to work together with people is the most important thing.
If there is a problem how do you sort it out?
Yes, if we do have problems with people it’s to work together with the people, to look at what the problem is and to find out where the person’s coming from and then to go back with Origin and look at solutions to the problem. It’s important to work together with each individual land owner. Everybody treats their property differently. People have different situations so to me the most important thing is to work together with each land owner as an individual.
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Driver Training
Sarah Clarke, Group Manager - Community Investment, talks about Origin projects
How did the young driver training program start?
When we listened to the community about what really mattered to them, one of the things they said that they were very concerned about was road safety and particularly the road safety for their younger people who live in the towns. I think young people are severely over represented in motor incidents and in regional and rural areas of Australia even more so.
What’s involved?
We started off by looking at heavily subsidising young defensive driver training for all young people in years 10, 11, 12 in the region, we didn’t want money to be a barrier for anybody who wanted to learn defensive driver training skills, so what we did was work with a company who offers defensive driver training for $280 per head and what we did was subsidise that cost so that families only had to pay $40 per head. That to me really is an important part of that program, one that the financial aspect is not ever a barrier for people because there is no price that you can put on somebody’s life but also that the people who participate can contribute to that themselves. I think it’s important to them and it’s important for the health of the program that everybody’s pitching in.
What’s next Sarah?
We are really looking to see and spending time over the next several months listening to the community about how they would like to see that program expand, what’s going to be relevant for them and who are the people that could most benefit from it.
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Sarah Clarke
Group Manager - Community Investment
Meet Sarah Clarke
I’m Sarah Clarke, I’m the Group Manager for Community Investment at Origin.
How did the Community Skills Scholarships program start?
We spent considerable time talking with people around Roma, Miles, Chinchilla and Dalby asking them what were the issues in their local area, what were the things that made those various communities tick? What were the things that they were afraid of and we were trying to understand what really mattered to local people.
What did local people tell you?
They told us that they were afraid of losing their young people because there weren’t enough education or employment opportunities in the region. That was interesting to start with in itself because I think we started the conversation with community members saying things to us like “we want things for our kids to do on the weekend, we want skate parks, bowling alleys and swimming pools.” We were really talking about the solutions and that’s not where we wanted to be. We wanted to understand what some of those drivers were? So we pushed on that topic, we really wanted to listen to what that meant, where that came from and what we found out was that there was a fear driving it, there was a fear about the ongoing sustainability of those towns. If the young people in the town didn’t have an incentive to stay and to build their families there. So that’s what we responded to.
What about support?
We also added in a different sort of support benefit beyond financial in the form of a mentor. We encouraged our employees and their families, and people outside our company and community to come together and form a group to mentor those young people through this process. That’s been really important, we didn’t want to be specific about how the relationship formed or went. We provided training and support to all those mentors. We wanted those relationships to be genuine and to develop them one on one.
How is the funding spent?
In essence it’s a way for the mentor to guide their protégé around how to spend the money that they get from Origin wisely. We are not prescriptive about how the money is spent. I think that is really an important component of the program that we trust the people that we are giving the money to that they make the right decision – and they have and they do. And really what we have seen is the money being spent in all sorts of areas that help keep those people in their apprenticeships and that’s what the purpose is. That’s going to be different for everybody and we wanted that part of the program to be really flexible.
Working Together
I think this program was never about Origin. This program is all about what we can do together that we could never do alone. Origin couldn’t have done it in isolation and the community couldn’t have done without us being at the table. I think what it says about us specifically is that we are really willing to learn. We don’t think that we are perfect. We really do value what people tell us and we do really do want to sit and listen. Having a conversation is much more about listening than it is about talking and I think that’s what we did in order to set up this program and that’s what we need to continue to do in order to make sure it remains relevant for both the community and our business.
How did the young driver training program start?
When we listened to the community about what really mattered to them, one of the things they said that they were very concerned about was road safety and particularly the road safety for their younger people who live in the towns. I think young people are severely over represented in motor incidents and in regional and rural areas of Australia even more so.
What’s involved?
We started off by looking at heavily subsidising young defensive driver training for all young people in years 10, 11, 12 in the region, we didn’t want money to be a barrier for anybody who wanted to learn defensive driver training skills, so what we did was work with a company who offers defensive driver training for $280 per head and what we did was subsidise that cost so that families only had to pay $40 per head. That to me really is an important part of that program, one that the financial aspect is not ever a barrier for people because there is no price that you can put on somebody’s life but also that the people who participate can contribute to that themselves. I think it’s important to them and it’s important for the health of the program that everybody’s pitching in.
What’s next Sarah?
We are really looking to see and spending time over the next several months listening to the community about how they would like to see that program expand, what’s going to be relevant for them and who are the people that could most benefit from it.
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Harrison Ellis
Community Skills Scholarship recipient, Dalby
Meet Harrison Ellis
It’s very good for people that need the scholarship for their trade and that. Like, I’ve had to move from Tara to Dalby and I’ve got to pay, like, half my wage is pretty much rent and I don’t have as much money as I could to spend on tools so that’s why it’s good to have so much more money to spend on tools and other stuff for your trade.
What difference will it make for you?
A lot. I’ll be able to buy a lot better tools and I would have been able to but I had to do a lot more overtime but I can still do what I like to do, like play footy and that, and still be able to buy good tools without having to do as much overtime.
What would you say to other young people?
I’d definitely go for it because it gives you a hand up in your apprenticeship and makes you afford better to buy better tools and makes you better.
What does this say about Origin?
It’s a good company and they like to help everyone. They’re not favouring any type of person. If you’re good enough and you want to have a go at it they’re most likely to give you their scholarship if you’re so good and you’re actually going to use it for what it’s designed for.
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Lachlan Drury
Community Skills Scholarship recipient, Condamine.
Meet Lachlan Drury
G’day, I’m Lachlan Drury and I’m an apprentice electrician with CRR Electrical at Condamine.
Tell us about the community skills scholarships?
An Origin Skills Scholarship really helps young people out and the local community, like Condamine and Miles, to stay in the local area and do an apprenticeship where you don’t have to go away to the city and complete it. And it really helps out with tools and all those sort of things. They’re not cheap.
What does your boss reckon Lachlan?
Yeah, my boss is pretty happy with the Origin Skills Scholarship. I think it’s pretty good to get the business name out and also to say that I’m sticking around in the local area and not racking off on him. Yeah, it’s good.
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David ‘Bugsy’ Warner
Origin Cultural Heritage Officer
Meet David ‘Bugsy’ Warner
Why do you like working for Origin?
Why I like working for Origin? Well, for starters, Origin is a very compassionate company towards Aboriginals in the workplace. Also artefacts that we find within the boundaries and their preservation is the most important part of cultural heritage and Origin is basically about preservation of all artefacts that’s found.
How does Origin protect indigenous heritage?
Origin plays a very big role in the preservation of our heritage and whatever we find is collected, photographed, written on paper and is put on the database for Origin for further references, which is very good. Very important because our children would want to know where they come from, what our people done here on this land where Origin is working. And Origin plays a very big part in preservation which we feel very proud to have and to work for and everything’s really, really good.
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Craig Hammermeister
Black Toyota, Chinchilla
Meet Craig Hammermeister
My name’s Craig Hammermeister, I’m the branch manager at Black Toyota in Chinchilla. Lived here all my life. Grew up, went to school and continuing to live here with my family, hopefully for the rest of my days.
Is Origin good for your town?
Definitely a positive. It allows us to grow as a business and a company. We’re allowed to ‑ it gives us the opportunity to employ more people which is always good. There’s not as many people leaving town to find jobs now. There’s actually people coming to town which makes our town grow. Our schools are growing so we’re getting more benefit through schools by having more people coming to town so the schools get larger. I don’t see any negatives at all because without big business coming to town and especially the coal seam business, the little town sort of dies off a little bit. The influx of people has helped the town grow. We’ve now got a Target, we’ve got bigger shopping centres, we’re getting a bigger medical centre. Hopefully that will help with us getting a larger hospital which is probably something we do need, but all these things are a positive. It makes our town grow.
















