Shearer revival in Western Queensland

Jesse Negus (bottom right, back to camera) is Blackall's first learner shearer in more than 20 years.(ABC Rural: Maddelin McCosker). Blackall, 960 kilometres west of Brisbane, was a town built on the sheep's back. Decades ago, there were dozens of shearing teams in the town, but drought and wild dogs decimated the sheep population. Soon the shearers left. But with the revival of sheep and wool in the west, largely thanks to the construction of predator-proof fencing, the need for a local team was obvious to third-generation shearer Matthew "Bear" Baillie…. https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2020-10-01/wool-returning-to-western-queensland/12716438