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Working with Shell’s QGC business for over 10 years, employing and training people within the Western Downs.\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E[Video footage]\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFemale apprentice in green hard hat walks away from the camera.\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E[Audio: Woman speaking - Eva Court]\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWorking on a big project such as this with Shell QGC gives me opportunities for my future that I otherwise would not have had.\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E[Video footage]\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFemale apprentice now sitting down and speaking to camera.\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E[Text display]\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EEva Court - Yard Hand, MPC Kinetic, Miles Supply Base\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E[Audio: Eva Court]\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThey have put me through TAFE through a business course, which can bridge two diplomas and masters, which can set me up really well for my future.\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E[Video footage]\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFootage shifts focus to a male apprentice working at a bench. 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Scene changes to a man in a workshop with an angle grinder.\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E[Text display]\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESupporting regional suppliers.\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWorking with local communities.\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAustralian government entrepreneurs programme. Helping businesses to build capacity and improve capability through mentorship and expert advice.\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E[Audio: Ma speaking – James Scotland]\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EShell QGC spoke to us about wanting to engage regional suppliers, we were keen to help regional suppliers and so this project has been about saying, \"let's get the supplies in Chinchilla up to the level that will make them preferred supplier\".\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E[Text display]\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EJames Scotland - Business Facilitator, Entrepreneurs Programme\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E[Video footage]\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETable meeting between James and employees\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E[Audio: Man speaking – Simon Burke]\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EYou know, I'm a boilermaker by trade and the finer points of a business sometimes get pushed aside but it gives you a little bit of awareness of how things should work. And, oh, we recently got our ISO 9001 which was always something that we wanted and I knew that we probably needed, but without that little bit of support from Shell's, QGC business and the Entrepreneurs Programme, it's pretty much without that, we wouldn't have got ISO 9001.\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E[Video footage]\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EA man in a cap sitting down, speaking to camera\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E[Text display]\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESimon Burke - SFPS, Chinchilla\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E[Audio: James Scotland]\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe business owners have someone that they can talk to, someone that they can say, \"These are the things that are worrying us, we don't really know how to deal with the large organisations,\" and they just have someone honest, an honest broker that you can talk to.\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E[Audio: Simon Burke]\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWe've got two apprentices now. We, I mean, we signed one off last year and we were questioning whether to put any more on. Without the program, and Shell QGC, I guess they wouldn't be apprentices, for us anyway.\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E[Video footage]\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EScene changes to holding end slide. Text overlay appears. 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Connecting Agribusiness to New Markets\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E[Video footage]\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETractor moving on a crop field. Image shifts to show a woman with a wide-brimmed hat smiling and speaking to a friend on the paddock.\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E[Audio: woman speaking – Molly Penfold]\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EI live and work at home. I'm studying full-time externally as well, as is my older sister who is doing business, majoring in Accounting. We're trying to expand our production by increasing our stocking in the feedlots and in the paddocks as well, and also through that looking to expand markets into China.\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E[Video footage]\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETruck driving past the farmlands filling up feedlots, footage shits to aerial view of cattle farm.\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E[Text display]\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMolly Penfold, Four Daughters\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E[Audio: Woman speaking - Gerry Doumany]:\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe aim of this program is to develop companies for export or put them on the export journey.\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E[Text display]\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EGerry Doumany, TSBE Food Leaders Australia\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E[Video footage]\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWoman working on the cattle farm with text overlay appearing.\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E[Text display]\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EEmerging Exporters\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Shell’s QGC business Emerging Exporters program is increasing access to new and Australian export markets for Western Down businesses.\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E[Audio: Gerry Doumany]:\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThey have a product that they're wanting to take beyond their farm gate, and they're interested in knowing how to go about this and that's what this program will do.\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E[Video footage]\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPenfold sisters working, footage shifts to expansive shot of cattle farm, footage of girl in a wide-brim hat facing camera.\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E[Audio: Woman speaking - Karen Penfold]:\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOne of the main reasons we are looking at different markets and why we ended up with the China export market is that we need to sustain our business, grow our business, so that we can actually have family succession to involve our four daughters and growing families.\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E[Video footage]\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWoman now speaks to the camera,\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E[Text display]\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EKaren Penfold, Four Daughters\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E[Audio: Karen Penfold]:\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWith the help of Shell’s QGC Emerging Exporters, we're hoping to gain a better understanding of the culture of trade, being able to sustain a monthly beef production or beef delivery into Wuhan in China.\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E[Video footage]\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPenfolds family working on the farm and in business setting. Expansive footage of cattle running.\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E[Text display]\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETaking product beyond the farm gate.\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E[Audio: Woman speaking - Karen Penfold]:\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIt's wonderful to be able to share the news that our first load of beef, our first load of Four Daughters Premium Black Angus, has made its way to Wuhan in central China. It's absolutely amazing, we're four daughters, four girls in Western Queensland who are working every day to feed - feed animals to feed the world. And it's happening. It's real. It's just amazing.\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E[Video footage]\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBusy central business district with motorcycles and pedestrians.\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E[Background audio]\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETraffic noise.\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E[Text display]\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHo Chi Minh City, Vietnam\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOctober 2019\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E[Video footage]\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBusy Vietnamese market showing fresh produce and people trading.\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E[Text display]\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EVietnam Trade Mission\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn November 2019, Shell’s QGC Emerging Exporters program took 7 Western Downs businesses to Vietnam to meet with potential export partners.\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E[Video footage]\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWoman purchasing avocadoes from a local street vendor, footage of a man speaking to a Vietnamese local, footage of local street markets.\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E[Audio: Man Speaking – Joel Sweet]\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBeing involved and immersed in the culture as a group has really helped. And just being here, getting your feet on the ground and being able to shake someone's hand and look them in the eye.\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E[Video footage]\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMan speaks to camera\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E[Text display]\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EJoel Sweet\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EImport Export Manager, DOM Distribution\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E[Audio: Joel Sweet]\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EYou can start a friendship or relationship and potentially a business partnership and you can't do that over the phone. You have to be here. And this, this group, the delegation what Shell QGC and TSBE have done, it's an exceptional opportunity. So, we've had a great time here in Vietnam.\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E[Video footage]\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFootage of local businesses and trade.\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E[Audio: Woman speaking – Jilly Tyler]\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EI'm traveling with people who I wouldn't have otherwise travelled with. So again, that diversity of perspective is something that only a program, like the Shell QGC program could do. 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