Gregory Roy Williamson is the mayor of North Queensland's Mackay Regional Council, a position he has held since 2016.
[4] Williamson started his political career as an alderman of what was then the Mackay City Council in the 1980s.
[5] Williamson first served as Mackay's mayor from 1991 to 1994[6] before going into business[5] and then returning to public office in 2016.
[7] Williamson is a fifth generation Mackay local and has over 35 years of service with the Australian Air Force Cadets.
[6] In October 2019, The New York Times profiled Williamson's planting, outreach, and education efforts to protect his community from the negative effects of climate change as part of a growing trend of small-town mayors hoping to affect change at the local level.