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QMDC Board
QMDC is directed by a board, or committee, made up of landholders, local government, industry and environmental representatives from across the catchments of the Queensland Murray-Darling Basin.
Peter Blundell
Chair
Ph: 07 4685 6166
E: peter.blundell@southerndowns.qld.gov.au
Peter has been involved with natural resource management, in one form or another, all his life. However, his official involvement began in about 1998. Peter is now the Chair of the steering committee overseeing the natural resource officer for the four Border Rivers councils and the vice-chair of the Granite Borders Landcare Committee.
Peter is also a representative on the Darling Downs Regional Organisation of Councils NRM working group, the LGAQ NRM reference group, and the Stanthorpe Water Assessment and Monitoring Project (SWAMP). Peter and his family manage a mixed grazing, sheep and cattle, and orcharding property 40 kilometres west of Stanthorpe, which has been owned by the Blundell family since 1932.
Denis Sommerfeld
Vice Chair and Treasurer
Ph: 07 4665 3352
E: dunairdsg@bigpond.com
Denis is the current Chair of the Maranoa-Balonne Catchment Management Association and has been a Councillor on Tara Shire Council since about 1998. Denis has held presidential positions with the Tara Golf Club, Tara Show Society and Tara Landcare, and is currently Chairman of the Tara and District Landcare Group.
Denis is Group Leader of Tara Scouts, past president of Tara State School Parents and Citizens Association, rural fire warden, and first officer and life member of Tara Apex. Denis and his wife own and operate a rural production business, ‘Dunaird’ near Tara, specialising in breeding stud Santa Gertrudis cattle and cereal grains along with their normal grazing enterprise. This is his fourth year of representation on the QMDC Executive, and third year as treasurer.
Jeff Campbell
Ph: 07 4623 2637
E: jeffrey.campbell@originenergy.com.au
Jeff and his wife Jacky produce beef on their family property "Currawarra" 50km north of Mitchell. Jeff’s work in natural resource management and sustainable management practices has been long-running, both on the family’s property and within the Mitchell community, encompassing Environmental Management Systems, holistic management practices and community training. Jeff has also been a long-term member of the Mitchell and District Landcare Association, of which he is currently President.
Gary Harch
Ph: 07 4639 1858
E: gary_harch@bigpond.com.au
Gary Harch has been an Anglican Minister for 25 years and moved to Toowoomba with his wife Marie-Claire in 2006 after living in Roma for nine years. Gary’s interests have included scientific research in the Simpson Desert, and, since his involvement with the Maranoa-Balonne Catchment Management Association, a strong interest in water. Gary has been involved with the Conservation Reference Panel for Condamine-Balonne as well as the Lower Balonne Ministerial Advisory Committee. He spent eight years on the Maranoa-Balonne Catchment Management Association committee in various positions including vice-president. Gary has been on the QMDC Executive since 2005.
Liz Wood
Ph: 07 4677 5151
E: wooduck48@bigpond.com
Liz first became involved with natural resource management and, more specifically, catchment management, during her seven-year term as a Waggamba Shire Councillor. This involvement has culminated in her current position as Chair of the Border Rivers Catchment Management Association. Liz and her husband John also have a mixed farming enterprise on the floodplain west of Goondiwindi.
Sarah Moles
Ph: 07 4666 6125
E: sarah.moles@gmail.com
Sarah has a small property in the headwaters of the Condamine catchment, managed largely for its nature conservation values. Her professional background is in photography and graphic and design but she has spent most of the past 15 years working in natural resource management. Her involvement has ranged from on-ground Landcare projects to policy development and ministerial advisory councils. Sarah has a particular interest in community engagement and is a fellow of the Australian Rural Leadership Foundation.
Tim Napier
Ph: 07 4671 3888
E: tim.napier@brff.com.au
Tim Napier was born and raised on his family's farm in eastern Tasmania. He holds a Bachelors Degree in Management (Farm Business) from University of Sydney and has spent the past 20 years working in a variety of irrigation operations across the Murray Darling Basin, in New South Wales and Queensland.
Tim was awarded an Australian Nuffield Scholarship in 2004 and studied sustainable farming systems in Europe, Canada, New Zealand and the United States in 2005 and 2006. In early 2007 Tim moved from the farm due to the severe drought, into the water policy field with local stakeholder's group, Border Rivers Food and Fibre. Tim has been working closely with his members, both NSW and Queensland state governments, and the Australian Government on water policy ever since. Tim and his wife, Jodie, and their young family live in the Queensland border town of Goondiwindi.
Rick McDougall
Ph: 07 4652 1361
E: rmcdougall@goondiwindirc.qld.gov.au
Rick McDougall has been a member of the Border Rivers Catchment Management Association committee since 2008. As an executive member of the MacIntyre Brook Irrigators Association and management committee member of Border Rivers Food and Fibre he has been heavily involved with the development of water resource planning and the ROP implementation. He is also a councillor on the Goondiwindi Regional Council where natural resource management is one of his responsibilities. In this capacity, Rick is a delegate to the Murray Darling Association. He is also an executive member of the Inglewood-Texas Landcare Group. Along with his family, Rick operates a mixed farming business in the Whetstone district.