Rural skilling for the future
The Longreach campus was originally set up as Queensland’s first rural training school in 1967. It is 3.5 kilometres east of Longreach in western Queensland.
The campus property is a 10 867 hectare Mitchell Grass grazing operation that has 160 horses, 600 beef cattle, 1100 sheep and 300 goats. The area carries the campus's El Pascol studs including the Australian Stock Horse and Quarter Horse Studs, Santa Gertrudis Beef Cattle Stud, Poll Merino Sheep Stud, and South African Boer Goat Stud.
The campus property is complemented by Manningham, the campus's 13 200-hectare commercial operation, 75 kilometres west of Longreach, where the focus is sheep and wool production. There are about 7500 sheep, 1500 meat goats and 100 head of beef cattle at Mannigham Station. Manningham Station has a large homestead and cooks' quarters, overseer’s cottage and jackaroos’ and jillaroos’ quarters.
The campus specialises in training for:
beef cattle production
horse breeding
sheep and wool
goat production
farm production.
The Longreach region
Longreach is often described as the heart of the famous Queensland outback. With a population of about 4 500 people, Longreach is Queensland’s largest outback town. The remote and flat landscape is home to a wide array of wildlife including kangaroos and emus.
Longreach is surrounded by vast sheep and cattle stations, which thrive on the Mitchell Grass Plains. With 1 million sheep and an abundance of cattle, the area is one of Australia’s major wool growing and cattle breeding areas. Meat goats, aquaculture, tourism, bush tucker, cottage crafts, and organically grown beef are just some of the industries thriving in Longreach and surrounding districts.
Longreach is renowned as the home of the Australian Stockman’s Hall of Fame. Other attractions in and around Longreach include:
the Qantas Founders’ Outback Museum
the Longreach School of Distance Education
Waltzing Matilda Centre in Winton
Lark Quarry dinosaur tracks west of Winton
Ilfracombe Folk Museum
property tours.
The town of Longreach has facilities including:
a cinema, library
arts and cultural centre
a large choice of public bars, restaurants and coffee shops
sporting facilities.
Longreach is linked to other major centres by daily flights and regular bus and rail services
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