Tony Green was born and raised in the Black Country, West Midlands. Over a fifty-six-year working life, he has had well over one hundred different jobs, including forge worker, rigger & scaffolder, miner, excavator driver, sheet metal worker, door‑to-door salesman, real estate salesman, businessman, wildlife carer, taxi driver and won an award for the best door‑to‑door vacuum cleaner salesman in Australia. He was in the British Army Territorials and the Australian Army Reserves. He lives with his wife in Townsville, Australia and has six children, twelve grandchildren, three great-grandchildren and is well on the way to Greening the planet.