Townsville Enterprise Chairman, Board of Directors, and the CEO together with its members held the 31st Annual General Meeting for the organisation.
The Annual General Meeting gives the organisation a chance to highlight its wins from the last financial year and acknowledge its key stakeholders and partners.
Townsville Enterprise Chairman, Kevin Gill, said the 2021/2022 Financial Year was the first year our country and the region experienced living with Covid-19.
“The strength and resilience of Townsville North Queensland not only lies in our character but also our industry diversity,” Mr Gill said.
“Townsville Enterprise’s advocacy priorities are driven by our membership base, community and partners. The global pandemic forced us to turn our heads to a new set of challenges like labour shortages, supply chain challenges and a housing crisis.”
Townsville Enterprise CEO, Claudia Brumme-Smith said the last financial year saw the organisation celebrate three decades of securing the future of North Queensland.
“Three decades ago, a group of visionaries turned an idea into a reality, working in the interests of North Queensland to secure a vibrant and prosperous future – Townsville Enterprise was born,” Mrs Brumme-Smith said.
“We are the prominent voice of the North and through advocacy, investment attraction, and promoting the region as a place to visit and live – together we continue to secure the future of Townsville North Queensland.”
“This financial year saw our organisation record its strongest membership profile in history with 24% growth and the highest Net Promoter Score in five years. This demonstrates the region’s business community sees the effectiveness and value of our organisation and the strength of what our advocacy can achieve for this region.”
CuString Managing Director Joseph O’Brien said Townsville Enterprise has continued to work closely with the Queensland Government and the new Australian Government to ensure both understand the opportunities of North and North West to deliver the clean energy transition and the critical minerals extraction and processing to support this transition.
“Townsville Enterprise advocates strongly for the region and it has clearly demonstrated to policy and decision-makers that North and North West Queensland has, as Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk says: The renewable resources above the ground combined with the critical minerals below the ground to be a renewable energy superpower*.”
“As the most advanced planned electricity transmission project in Australia, CopperString will harness the power of the region’s renewable energy potential to develop the critical minerals resources, promote clean energy, hydrogen and advanced manufacturing investment, jobs and exports. With recent announcements from Iberdrola, Fortescue Future Industries and Edify along with the Premier’s commitments to CopperString, we are absolutely seeing the vision that Townsville Enterprise has advocated for of North Queensland as a clean energy industrial powerhouse becoming a reality.”
