This is our final tweet 🥹. Thanks for your support here over the past eight years. You can still find us at and on Facebook and LinkedIn 👋

🍷 Wind down after work and meet new people at our next Emerald Business Networking Event. It's free but RSVPs are essential 📨 Presented in partnership with #LocalBuyingFoundation

Happy New Year! Join us for our first networking event for 2023🤝Presented in partnership with #localbuyingfoundation. It's FREE but RSVP is essential #networking #event #centralqueensland

CHDC has joined the chorus of concerns about @Aurizon_'s proposed fee hike for non-coal producers to use its rail line between Emerald and Blackwater. Read more: @CHRCouncil @GrainCorp @AgForceQLD @RAPADCWQ @Lachlan_Millar @colinboyceMP #CQIP #CQROC

"It's been a year like no other." Our CEO Peter Dowling has reflected on the past 12 months in his final eNews column for 2022: The CHDC office is now closed and will re-open on 9 January🎄 Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

If your new year's resolution is to grow your business, use our free Central Highlands Grant Finder 🕵️ 🔎 Includes Caravan Parks Grant Program (closes 22.12), Rural Economic Development Grants and Entrepreneurship Facilitator Program.

🎄 'Tis the silly season! That means our office will close at 5:00pm this Friday, 23 December. CHDC wishes you a happy and safe festive season. Thank you for your support in 2022 🙏 We will re-open at 8:30am on Monday, 9 January.

🎥 Watch our CEO Peter Dowling give an overview of CHDC's Annual Report for 2021-22. You can read the report here:

🎄 'Tis the silly season! That means our office will close at 5:00pm this Friday, 23 December. CHDC wishes you a happy and safe festive season. Thank you for your support in 2022 🙏 We will re-open at 8:30am on Monday, 9 January.

It's our pleasure to present to you our Annual Report for the year ending June 2022. It shows how CHDC pushed through various challenges to maintain a high level of productivity across the year 💪 See for yourself:

🎄 We welcomed in the festive season earlier this week, when the CHDC Board hosted a Christmas lunch for the volunteers and staff from our Visitor Information Centres 🍽

CHDC was fortunate to work with more than 20 partners to deliver the 2021 Central Highlands Business Excellence Awards🤝 Partnerships are now available for the 2023 Awards. View the prospectus 👉

🌟 Play a starring role in our biggest event for 2023! Partnerships are now available for CHDC's sixth Central Highlands Business Excellence Awards 🏆 Full details👉 Special thanks to @CQU and Kestrel Coal, already onboard as Sapphire Partners.

Strapped for time? Our quick video gives you the key takeaways from the 2022 Central Highlands Economic Profile. Get the bigger picture here:

Working for CHDC is just one piece of Kelly Corbishley's big life! Our Finance and HR Coordinator explains more about her work at CHDC + what else she gets up to, here 👉 (Spoiler alert: It includes🛶🧘🏼‍♀️🎥)

RT @PeterDowling10: Great energy at this morning’s Queensland Connects Symposium. ⁦@CHDCorp⁩ ⁦@telford_julia⁩ #regions#innovation#collectiv…

#ICYMI Futura Resources is expected to start constructing 2 new steelmaking coal mines near Emerald in early 2023⛑ ◾️ QLD Govt statement: ◾️ CH Mining Fact Sheet:

Figures show the Central Highlands' unemployment rate has hit a 3-year low 🚻 + the region has higher household incomes than the State average💲. All the details are in our new 📊 2022 Central Highlands Economic Profile:

#ICYMI "The major takeaway was that Net Zero is something we all need to be thinking about but we need to just take it one step at a time." 🖊️ The latest column from CHDC's Business Facilitator covers the key points from our recent workshop:

Get your ducks in a row 🦆🦆🦆 if you'd like to apply for a $5K Business Basics grant. Registrations of interest open at 9am on 24.11, when you'll need to complete an online form with some info about your small biz. 🔎 Central Highlands Grant Finder: