12 Apr 2023

Tiny Aussie outback town offers $20k to new residents

From Checkpoint, 5:51 pm on 12 April 2023

Fancy a change of pace and cheaper housing? A tiny Australian outback desert town is offering grants of more than $20,000 to anyone who builds a house there and moves in.

Quilpie is about 1000km west of Brisbane in Queensland. Population just 800, but with big dreams of cracking the tonne.

The grants are to buy sections and settle in. Terms and conditions are very few.

Justin Hancock, chief executive of the Quilpie Shire Council, talks to Lisa Owen.