SHARING INSIGHTS INTO CAREERS
27 MAY 2024: ACC staff shared insights into beef industry opportunities at the Brisbane Careers and Employment Expo on Friday and Saturday, offering students a glimpse of life on the land … and beyond. They were kept busy – the Friday session at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre attracted 9000 attendees, with 4,500 guests …
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SOUTHPORT STUDENTS VISIT
20 MAY 2024: These Year 12 students from The Southport School were absorbed by their visit to our Cannon Hill processing plant this morning. The 21 visitors had plenty of questions for our workplace training officer Tony Kickert, who led the group on a plant tour. The ACC team also explained career pathways into the …
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CEO SHARES VISION AT BEEF 2024
12 MAY 2025: The speech our CEO Anthony Lee delivered to the Droughtmaster conference so impressed the TV team at Beef2024 they took him into the on-site studio to record this interview. Here, he discusses how agriculture should be advocating for itself. “My personal view is that we’re structurally set up incorrectly. We make it …
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FIRST-YEAR STUDENTS GET FULL VISION
24 APRIL 2024: We had the pleasure of hosting nearly 70 first-year agribusiness students from The University of Queensland at our Cannon Hill processing plant. They came in two shifts, to see the full supply chain in action. The morning visitors were joined by the company founder Trevor Lee (back row, centre) during their tour, …
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TACKLING TOP-OF-MIND HEALTH HASSLES
23 APRIL: Sleep, weight and fitness … those were the three top-of-mind health worries that our staff listed in the annual wellbeing survey. So ACC is working with the Queensland Government program ‘My Health for Life’ to support the health and wellbeing of our employees by offering free, confidential one-on-one health checks for all staff. The …
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CLEAN PRODUCTION IMPRESSES WAGYU VISITORS
Leaders in international Wagyu production visited our Cannon Hill plant this week as part of the WagyuEdge national conference. Visitors from UK, the US and Brazil toured the facility, guided by ACC’s GM Properties and Farming, Christian Coffey (right of group, below) and Supply Chain Manager Tony Laurent (left of group). Christian said: “The biggest …
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COACHING FOR A WINNING TEAM
9 APRIL 2024: Old fashioned hands-on coaching at our ACC Cannon Hill facility in recent weeks paid off for the The University of Queensland team with outstanding results at last week’s Australian ICMJ northern conference beef-judging competition at Rockhampton. The team secured multiple wins at the first of two national events after undertaking a training …
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GAB BATTLE HITS LANDLINE
8 APRIL 2024: A coal-mining company’s proposal to store waste carbon dioxide in Australia’s greatest freshwater resource, the Great Artesian Basin, has shocked food producers. Our CEO Anthony Lee has joined farm leaders opposing Glencore’s plan to pollute the nation’s vital Precipice aquifer. He was interviewed by ABC Landline’s Pip Courtney broadcast last weekend. Series …
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OPAL CREEK HOSTS STUDENTS
29 MARCH 2024: ACC’s General Manager Feedlots, David Bailey and Opal Creek Feedlot Manager, Angus Lee welcomed year 12 agriculture students from Toowoomba Grammar School this week. The 15-member group toured our feed mill operations, including the steam flakers and batching systems. They saw different cattle breeds on customised feed for the various end-markets and …
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AIDING RURAL AID CHARITY
27 MARCH 2024: We were proud to support the charitable work of Rural Aid with a lunch in Brisbane last Friday that raised more than $250,000. The annual ‘Our Mates in the Bush’ event was attended by agribusiness leaders supporting the work of the national farm charity. Rural Aid’s CEO John Warlters said: “The work …
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