2019 December 12th Newspaper Edition

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Tully Farmer/Inventor Bringing Breakthrough

BBQ to the World SEAN DENT KEVIN McQuillen, a cattle farmer in Jarra Creek, is bringing to the world a new BBQ that he has been working on for the past five years. The first production run is on its way to Australia from China, where it was manufactured, and will be for sale in Tully at Tackle World as of December 16. McQuillen, a born and bred Tully boy, went to school at St Clare’s in Tully and to Abergowrie College in Ingham until the age of 15. He received a motor mechanical apprenticeship with the local Di Bella family, owners of the Holden Dealership. He then started farming, focusing on bananas,

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cane, and cattle, the latter of which turned out to be his main farming love. He first started thinking about his idea for a revolutionary BBQ as far back as when he was a child. McQuillen loved helping his great uncle on his 400,000 acre cattle station west of Mareeba. Back then, they didn’t use helicopters to get around the land. They relied on pack horses to go bush for up to a month at a time. All the cooking was done on an open fire with very basic food. “I guess the other motivation was that most BBQs on the market would take a long time to heat up and then tended to stew a steak.” Continued PG3

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