Elected to the QWaLC board in 2022, Michael is a member of Save Our Waterways Now, a community catchment organisation working to restore the habitats of creeks and waterways in the catchments of Enoggera, Ithaca and Fish Creeks in Brisbane’s north and west.

Michael is a solicitor of the Supreme Court of Queensland with a distinguished public sector career working in senior positions in the Commission for Children and Young People, the Department of the Premier and Cabinet, the Department of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Policy and the Department of Children, Youth Justice and Multicultural Affairs.

In a parallel career, Michael has served 38 years as a member of the Australian Army (parttime), with four operational tours of duty. In 2012, Michael was awarded the Conspicuous Service Cross for his leadership of an Infantry Battalion. He was awarded a Bar to the Conspicuous Service Cross in 2017 for outstanding achievement in enhancing the operational outcomes of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan. He retired in 2022 as a Brigadier. 

Having witnessed first-hand and at length, the ravages on communities of human rights abuses, mass population displacement, starvation, disease, drought and floods, Michael is passionate about practical, community-led actions in combatting climate change. Michael in inspired by the volunteer effort in Queensland towards caring for country, including maintaining species diversity and habitat, improving soil health and reducing emissions.

A management and environmental professional with over 25 years of experience in the public sector, Craig is passionate about sustainable natural resource management and delivering effective organisational leadership.

Craig possesses a broad range of management expertise, spanning fields such as: compliance to environmental sustainability, planning and development assessment, contaminated land management to environmental health, invasive pest management, waste and public art. He has a strong track record of delivering excellent customer service in the most challenging, outward facing business areas of government services, often with complex legal and competing stakeholder interests. Craig has achieved this by understanding the community’s needs through effective consultation and an empathetic approach.

He has held technical, managerial and executive roles in State and local government and is currently the Chief Executive Officer of the Darling Downs-Moreton Rabbit Board.

Craig lives on a small farm with his young family near Stanthorpe and is an active member of the Granite Belt community.

Trevor was elected to the Board in November 2024.

He is an Australian with aboriginal heritage born in Cooktown, Cape York Peninsular, with ties to Princess Charlotte Bay, Lakefield and the Palmer River regions.  For the last thirty-one years, he has lived and worked in environmental and natural resource management roles and holding an International Agricultural Diploma, and a Certificate in Animal Husbandry. Other qualifications include, Conservation and Land Management, Training and Assessment. Trevor has also undertaken numerous courses such as Conservation and Land Management Training, Environmental Project Management, Aerial and on ground Environmental Scientific Surveys to name a few. He would enjoy a second term as Chair of Queensland Conservation Council.

Richard was appointed by the Board in November 2024.

Richard has twenty years’ experience in community development, engagement and project management providing expert advice, support and leadership to Indigenous communities throughout Australia. Trained and experienced in facilitation, mediation and stakeholder engagement with Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities and clients. Adept at report writing with skills in cross-cultural communication and project management. Richard believes effective relationships between any clients (especially Indigenous) and service providers start with – ‘Know people, create a connection’ one of the core elements of community engagement skills. With this in mind, it is also important to have consideration for Indigenous ways of working when planning and delivering.

Qualifications include Bachelor of Applied Science – Curtin University (2005) and Advanced Diploma in Natural and Cultural Resources – Deakin University (2012).

His current roles are Manager, First Nations Engagement | Greening Australia, Strategic Advisor | Wadja Indigenous Protected Area Consultation and Working Group Member | Fitzroy Catchment Traditional Owner Alliance.

Simon Warner is an experienced Director and corporate executive. Simon has history of successfully leading and managing both corporate and not for profit enterprise’s.  He is currently:

• Executive Chairman of enterprise software company Tactiv Pty Ltd providing software solutions to support social and environmental for good programs,
• Director of Healthy Land and Water an independent organisation dedicated to improving and protecting the environment,
• Director of Queensland Water and Land carers which is the peak body for natural resource management (NRM) volunteers, and
• Chairman of the Lockyer Community Consultative Committee on the Inland Rail Project.

Previously he was Managing Director of Tactiv and Chief Executive Officer and Director of SEQ Catchments Ltd.

Simon is a member of AICD and has a Business degree with a post graduate qualification in IT.  He has spent a good deal of his working career in executive roles ranging from IR to Logistics and Operations management. He has also worked closely with government on policy and regional planning issues including overseeing the development of the South-East Queensland Rural Futures Strategy and the first SEQ Regional NRM plan.  Simon is passionate about agricultural sustainability and innovative ways to fund and support social and environmental good outcomes.

He lives at Murphys Creek in the Lockyer Valley and operates a small grazing holding in addition to his corporate and community activities.

Judith considers one of the key pathways to sustainable natural resource management is through positive engagement with stakeholders and community members, particularly Traditional Owners. As Deputy Chair of Pioneer Catchment Landcare Management Committee and Deputy President of the Mackay Branch of Native Plants Queensland (SGAP), she works to raise awareness of local environmental values and increase local management capacity.

Judith has an academic background, as well as doing a stint in the hospitality/tourism industry. Although recently retired as a Senior Lecturer in Applied and Environmental Science, she maintains her connection to Central Queensland University as an adjunct researcher with the Coastal Marine Ecosystem Research Centre.

Judith spends her spare time trying to replace a luxurious growth of weeds with native vegetation while thwarting the Brush-turkeys’ attempts to turn everything into compost, on a peri-urban block outside of Mackay.

Judith was elected as a director on the 3rd November 2021.