South West and Darling Downs Advisory Committee

After working in a sawmill, then with a building gang, by watching and learning he taught himself ways to do the work quicker and more efficiently. Clive worked weekends and took jobs that others wouldn’t.

In 1964, Clive purchased his first block of land for subdivision along with the equipment necessary to be able to develop it, again ensuring efficiency in construction. Since then Clive has gone on to develop over 10,000 blocks of land contributing greatly to Toowoomba’s growth over the years.

In 1972 Clive built the Wilsonton Hotel in Toowoomba in six weeks and it was opened in December 1972. The hotel went on to have the largest licence fee of any hotel in Australia. Clive added a shopping centre to the surrounds of the hotel in 1976.

Clive was elected a City Councillor in 1973 and later Mayor from 1982 until 1992 he was also State Member for Toowoomba South in the Queensland Parliament from 1986 to 1990. He was awarded an O.A.M. for service to the community, then in 2006 he was awarded an A.M. for his service to the community through philanthropic support of medical research, sporting and educational organisations in Queensland.  Clive was named a Queensland Great in 2017.

Clive has been a major supporter of LifeFlight since the establishment of the Toowoomba base in 2006, and in 2017 donated $2 million to match the funds provided by the Federal Government to build the new LifeFlight base at the Toowoomba Airport.