The family moved to Queensland, and established their dairy farm in Burpengary, north of Brisbane, where Rowley Road is today.

Pat Rowley attended Marist College, Ashgrove, a Catholic boarding school for boys, from grades 5–12.

Deregulation would ensure a far more competitive dairy industry while simultaneously benefiting consumers by lowering retail prices of milk.

[13] Despite a dramatic decrease in dairy farms across the nation, many farmers believe the effects of deregulation in the absence of Rowley's initiative would have been utterly devastating.

We put together the biggest re-structure scheme in the history of agriculture, $2.1 billion, to farmers on the basis this game is going to get hard in Western Australia, New South Wales and Queensland, you need to use this money to get yourself into the new market realities to try and be able to operate.