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Stuart Armitage was appointed as a non-executive director on 17 June 2021.

For more than 40 years, Stuart has been a Darling Downs irrigation farmer and involved in various leadership positions across rural and agricultural industries. He has served as the president of the Queensland Farmers Federation for four years, working with government and industry to develop strategies and policies to improve efficiencies in water and energy consumption.

Stuart is a member of Central Downs Irrigators and the Darling Downs Cotton Growers and previously served as a director of Cotton Australia and a Millmerran Shire councillor. He is a member of the Arrow Energy Intensively Farmed Land Committee, a commissioner for the Gasfields Commission Queensland and a Chair of their sub-committee, the Surat Stakeholder Advisory Group.

He was independent Chair of Sunwater’s Paradise Dam Industry Forum from February 2020 until June 2021.

In 2020, Stuart was awarded the Peter Kenny Medal for his ongoing contribution to improving and developing sustainable outcomes within the Queensland agriculture sector. He is the patron and current Chair of ‘Are you bogged mate?’, a charity addressing mental health impacts in regional and farming communities.