Central Queensland

Overview

Central Queensland has strengths in mining and gas, vocational and tertiary education, primary production, tourism, manufacturing, retail, and health services.

• Key towns and cities – Rockhampton, Gladstone, Emerald, and Longreach
• Mining strengths – 
  • Proximity to Australia’s largest coal reserves in Bowen and Galilee basins
  • Power stations producing almost half of Queensland’s energy
  • Hub for Queensland’s liquefied natural gas (LNG) industry, including Central Queensland Gas Pipeline, a proposed 450km (280mi) high-pressure pipeline from Bowen Basin to Gladstone
• Port of Gladstone – Queensland’s largest multi-commodity port, throughput of more than 124 million tonnes in 2018–19, led by coal and LNG
• Biofuel and green hydrogen pilot projects in Gladstone
• Australia’s beef capital of Rockhampton and major export abattoirs
• Significant agricultural production, including major winter growing region

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