Michelle Green

This is Michelle Green’s first term as a councilor on Mackay Regional Council but her second foray into local government. Her passion for local government began in 2016 when elected as a councilor for Muswellbrook Shire Council in the Upper Hunter Valley in New South Wales. She and her husband are Mackay born and raised and after travelling extensively have returned to the region to raise their children in the Northern Beaches. Cr Green is a qualified exercise physiologist, has a passion for active living, and is a member of the Sports and Recreation Advisory Committee and the Mountain Bike Alliance. She is a future-forward strategic thinker, motivated to promote economic diversity and embrace the 4th Industrial Revolution to enable the communities to evolve and thrive in a rapidly changing future. Cr Green sits on the Water and Waste Advisory Board, LAWMAC, Sustainability and Environment Committee and Invest Mackay Committee. She has extensive experience in the METS sector, having been a past winner of Operator of the Year in the Queensland Women in Mining Awards.