When Darren Maier joined RSPCA Queensland as the new CEO in October 2019, he said we needed to take the many years of great work of RSPCA Queensland, and make that the seed of what would become the next incredible era of the organisation. That seed would then blossom and deliver an array of exciting new initiatives as we continued to fulfil our purpose.
However, none of us could have predicted this would be a year of crisis. With bushfires striking at the heart of Queensland’s wildlife habitat in November, and then COVID-19 bringing our traditional way of operating to a halt in March 2020, we had to think quickly, be nimble, and transform RSPCA Queensland into a collaborative, dynamic and very different organisation.