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Greg has previously been a Board Member of Global Maintenance Upper Spencer Gulf (GMUSG) for 18 years and the Chairman for 12 years
In his role as GMUSG Chairman, Greg has developed proactive alliances with State Governments, the
Departments of Mining, Industry, Training, and Resource & Energy, providing him with a significant opportunity to understand and represent the needs of Industry members to access and participate in Government programs.
Greg actively provides guidance on Defence industry entry and compliance.
Greg has an in-depth knowledge of ISO standards, installs management systems across Australasia and conducts 60 company compliance audits annually.
An Integrated Management System (IMS) is a single system incorporating the requirements of two or more auditable standards such as ISO 9001 (Quality), ISO 14001 (Environmental), ISO 45001 (Health & Safety) and ISO 27001 (Information Security).
Combining the common elements from all your chosen standards will enable you to better align your management system to your daily business activities.
An integrated management system is a single documented system that addresses the requirements of all the separate standards. It contains a complete policy statement and inclusive objectives combining:
? Document control
? Records control
? Internal auditing
? Management reviews
? Process controls and procedural documentation
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Distinguished and Famous people from The Mid Coast
🏉 Danny Buderus
Danny Buderus was born in Taree and played junior football locally before a long career with Newcastle Knights. He became a premiership-winning hooker, Australian captain and New South Wales captain, with his Dally M Player of the Year award arriving in 2004. The position demanded quick decisions, hard defence and the ability to organise a side from close to the action. Taree’s local grounds form the beginning of that development. His induction into the NRL Hall of Fame in 2019 recognised a career that extended through representative teams and a period with Leeds.
🏍️ Troy Bayliss
Troy Bayliss was born in Taree in 1969 and began riding small motorcycles around the country near home as a child. Financial limits interrupted early racing, and he took an apprenticeship in a vehicle body shop before his international career developed. He later became a three-time World Superbike champion, forming an especially strong association with Ducati. The workshop beginning adds an interesting dimension to the racing story: mechanical work and competition were both part of the route forward. Taree is the childhood setting behind a career eventually followed by motorcycle supporters around the world.
📚 Les Murray
Les Murray made the country around Bunyah an enduring presence in Australian poetry. Farm work, weather, animals and the sound of everyday speech supplied material for writing that travelled well beyond the district. After living in Sydney, he returned near his childhood home. His poems could be richly elaborate or direct and spare, with country experience remaining central to both modes. The regional connection was lived and repeatedly revisited: familiar small places entered literature through an attentive eye, an inventive ear and a refusal to assume that important subjects had to come from a city.
📏 Alan Harper
Alan Harper spent his early years in the parish based at Copeland, where his father was a Congregational minister. After his mother died when he was three, the family moved away. Harper later became a physicist whose responsibilities included Australia’s temperature standards and, eventually, the practical management of metric conversion. During World War II he organised a high-temperature measurement service for metallurgical industries. His professional life would involve laboratories and international standards committees, a considerable journey from his early years in the Copeland district. The family connection belongs to his childhood, before the scientific education and public responsibilities that followed.
🎭 Brian Syron
Brian Syron spent part of his childhood with his paternal grandmother at Minimbah, near Forster, learning about his Biripi heritage. Born in Sydney, he later trained at the Stella Adler Theatre Studio in New York and returned to become an influential actor, director and teacher. He helped establish Aboriginal theatre organisations and directed Jindalee Lady, a film that placed Aboriginal professionals at the centre of its story and employed a largely Aboriginal cast and crew. The childhood connection with Minimbah belongs to a life devoted to widening the roles available to Aboriginal people on stage and screen.

