Michael Organ was the Australian Greens Federal Member for Cunningham between 19 October 2002 - 8 October 2004. He was born in Bulli, on the New South Wales south coast just north of Wollongong, on 22 September 1956 to a family which has resided in the Illawarra district since 1839. He is married with two children.
Prior to his election to the Federal Parliament in 2002 Michael worked as a local historian and at the University of Wollongong as a research assistant and archivist. He is the author of a major work on the history of the Illawarra and South Coast Aborigines as well as being widely published on areas of local Illawarra history.
Michael is a strong supporter of the union movement. He has been a union member for almost 30 years and a union delegate for the Public Service Association at the University of Wollongong. In recent years Michael has been involved in environmental campaigns associated with the Illawarra Escarpment, the Edgewood estate at Woonona, and Sandon Point.
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Michael has a history of active participation in local Council Neighbourhood Committees, prior to their abolition in 2005, and has been a member of the Sandon Point Surf Club as an age manager for the Nippers and the Bulli Junior Soccer Club.
He has enjoyed a long involvement with the Illawarra Historical Society since 1984 and variously served on its committee in the role of vice-president and secretary. Michael was also a foundation member of the Illawarra Family History Group in 1987 and a member of the Northern Illawarra Residents Action Group and the Friends of the Regent Theatre Group.
Michael has represented the community on a number of Wollongong City Council committees since the late 1980s. These include the Northern Illawarra Bicentennial Committee (1987-8), the Wollongong Herage Advisory Committee (1992-99), and Illawarra Tourist Mine Committee (2001+) and the Sandon Point Facilitation Committee (2001-2).
Since leaving parliament at the end of 2004 Michael has worked at the University of Wollongong as a project manager and continued his research and writing activities.
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