News: North Star to Border
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March 6, 2025
Inland Rail graduate spotlight: David Cresswell
In 2021, Inland Rail partnered with Engineers Australia to build our Graduate Development Program, enabling the best young minds to contribute to Australia’s largest rail infrastructure project. Four years later, a top recruit has graduated as a Project Engineer and is now working on site, supporting the Northern NSW team.

March 6, 2025
Meet the newest member of our team, Nat Woods
Late last year our Goondiwindi team moved into new office space at 28 Marshall Street, Goondiwindi, which is better suited for community drop-ins. Greeting visitors is our newest team member and a well-known and respected Goondiwindi local, Nat Woods.

December 19, 2024
North Star to NSW/Queensland Border section update – December 2024
Since our last update, we’ve moved office, focused on growing the team to support our community interactions and gathered feedback on local opportunities. As we farewell 2024, we want to thank our alignment landowners, local representatives and the wider community for engaging with us this year.

July 16, 2024
North Star to NSW/Queensland Border section update – July 2024
Our Stakeholder Engagement team were excited to attend the Goondiwindi and Warialda Agricultural Shows earlier this year to answer questions from the community about Inland Rail.

December 18, 2023
North Star to NSW/Queensland Border section update December 2023
As the year ends, here’s a recap of major achievements which shaped the North Star to NSW/Qld Border section’s progress in 2023.

December 6, 2023
Important – Fire ant emergency order
In late November, the NSW Department of Primary Industries confirmed the detection of three red imported fire ant nests in South Murwillumbah in north-eastern New South Wales, 13km south of the Queensland border.

September 22, 2023
Inland Rail contractors win major industry awards
The Inland Rail project has won three major awards at the Excellence in Surveying and Spatial Innovation (EISSI) in Sydney, with our surveying contractors, Monteath & Powys, winning two awards for their work on the Inland Rail project and Casey Surveying and Design also taking out an award.

August 23, 2023
North Star to NSW/Qld Border Newsletter – Winter 2023
Winter edition of the North Star to NSW/Qld Border quarterly printed newsletter distributed in August 2023 which keeps alignment communities updated on the latest project news and important milestones at Inland Rail.

August 3, 2023
Responding to your noise and project delivery feedback
Your feedback from our latest May to June community survey indicated communities are keen to know more about how we will manage noise during the operation of Inland Rail, as well as construction timing for each section.

July 26, 2023
North Star to Border takes new step on approvals pathway
The Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the North Star to New South Wales/Queensland Border section of Inland Rail has been approved, marking another step in the approvals pathway for Inland Rail.