Thread: What's Kingaroy (Qld) like to live in?

A nice medium size town,and as had been said has good school and sport facilities,quite cold in winter and hot in summer,a good airfield but not night rated from memory,mainly rural,peanuts,potatoes,and recently vineyards,there is a medium size Indiginious community at Murgon,there is a bus service to Caboolture and Brisbane a couple of times a week but that could be daily now,was at one time semi famous for being close to the home of Sir Joh Bjelke Peterson (Qld Premier)and his widow still lives there,it has Servos,motor and motorcycle dealers,fairly good hotels and accommodation, mainly good quality red soil and town water. and all the things that kids love,KFC,Macca's,Hungry Jacks and Pizza Parlours, I was last up there 18 months ago, and before that for an Airshow.

Daughter lived there for about 8 years,we visited her quite regularly.Seems a nice place generally.Although the town itself only has 8 or 9 thousand people,because of the power station and many smaller towns close by,it has the shopping and other facilities of a town of about 20,000.Not far from the bunyas,they are a must see.[bunyas had very light snowfall about 5 or 6 years ago]

Thais a lot everyone. Got the job interview tomorrow. Oddest one I've had yet.
The job is via a labour hire agency. They want to meet swmbo at well as me, and want me to wear work clothes to the interview!
Bob, I saw that PDF while googling power stations. I don't know yet which one it is. As always the agents are reluctant to provide any real detail.
The money sounds good, although a bit less so when you factor in that I'd normally have the use of a company vehicle, however it may allow me to upgrade from a SIII diesel! Lol
Anyway, there's a six month probation (6 months?????!!!) and I figure that it's close enough to home that I can rent a room or small unit & we can take turns visiting at weekends until it either becomes permanent or falls over.

Originally Posted by Ratel10mm

Thais a lot everyone. Got the job interview tomorrow. Oddest one I've had yet.

Anyway, there's a six month probation (6 months?????!!!) and I figure that it's close enough to home that I can rent a room or small unit & we can take turns visiting at weekends until it either becomes permanent or falls over.

Let us know how you go. Our daughter is in her first year of teaching at Gayndah, never been out of Brisbane before, Loving the job. Seems like they are after keepers, in your job. If you get the job, I suggest, rent the house on the coast, take the family with you. That is what the interviewer will be looking for. Bob.

quite aside from any of the forgoing posts, the region has been known to generations of sales reps as "the hungry valley". You went hungry working it. The locals were once well known for their tight-fistedness. Don't know if this is still the case. The population used to be principally of German and Danish descent. Henry Lawson wrote of a Victorian country district of similar ethnicity that the local farmers "asked for nothing and gave away less."

Ok, so had the interview with the agency this afternoon.
Basically it appears that the reason for the rush is someone was lined up to start Tuesday, until his wife refused to relocate a couple of days ago.
It's at Tarong Power Station.
Contract is 6 months 'probation' as a casual employee with the agency, moving to permanence with the sub contractor at the end of that time. So presumably the advertised high wages are only for the duration of the casual contract - the maths works out that way.
No relocation assistance available, hey ho.
No vehicle of course, being a static site. That's a large part of a service tech's package, so makes the offered rate lower again. But on the other hand I like industrial sites and there's an obvious possibility of getting dual traded.
I've said that assuming they wish to proceed with me, I want to meet the blokes I'd be working with / for & see the site before I commit. I figure if that goes ahead, at the very least I'll get to see another bit of Oz.

Bob, that's exactly the idea re. housing. I'd sort something out locally for the 6 months, and if it went permanent we'd look to move there & rent out this house.
Swmbo works part time, so during the probation she & our son can visit for long weekends, and I can drop down for weekends.

Good luck . Hope it goes well for you both.

Tarong Power Station was regarded as being at Nanango which is certainly closer than Kingaroy. I was involved in supplying mobile plant to Pacific Coal, the supplying mine, in the construction and start up phases in the 1980's. They always used Nanango as their location. Maybe you should look at living there. Nice town as country towns go and closer to Brisbane.