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 George F. Trembath
George Trembath was born in the North Queensland town of Atherton in 1948, a baby boomer and eventually the middle child of a family of seven, six of them brothers. He spent an unusually itinerant childhood within the state, studying under the government correspondence program and in sixteen different primary schools, an education big on social and adaptation skills. His formal education ended at the eighth grade, but he subsequently studied metallurgy and journalism albeit without achieving qualifications for either. He is a qualified Permaculture designer.
In his early working career, he broke with the itinerant lifestyle of his childhood and spent twelve years in the western mining community of Gunpowder where he elevated his work skills from those of a labourer and plant operator to those of a processing plant manager. From 1983 to 2005 he was self-employed; contracting and consulting to the mineral and chemical processing industry, first as a commissioning supervisor then later as a plant design manager and eventually project manager. During this period he worked in most Australian states and overseas in Cyprus, New Zealand and Turkey.
He has travelled in various capacities to the UK, northern Europe, Italy, Greece, Bali and a number of south Pacific Islands.
He married in Charters Towers at age seventeen and has two daughters, a son and seven grandchildren. He now lives on a rural property in south eastern Queensland with his wife Jocelyn in a solar-powered stone house they built themselves.
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