Elected Council
Cr Nuatali Nelmes Lord Mayor (Labor)
Lord Mayor Nuatali Nelmes has served for six years, returned for a second consecutive term as the Lord Mayor of Newcastle following a general election held on 9 September 2017.
Greater Newcastle Metropolitan Plan Implementation, and a Board Member for Newcastle Airport, Greater Newcastle Aerotropolis and associated Partnership Boards.
Nuatali previously served as a Councillor for six years from 2008.
Nuatali is also Chair of City of Newcastle’s Asset Advisory Committee and previously served on the Board of the Hunter Westpac Rescue Helicopter for four years, as well as on the Board of Northern Settlement Services and the Hunter Writers Centre.
Nuatali holds a Bachelor of Business with a double major in Industrial Relations/Human Resource Management and Marketing from the University of Newcastle, and is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and the Harvard Bloomberg Leadership Initiative. She worked in small business and recruitment before being elected to Council in 2008. As a councillor, she also worked on community climate adaptation programs with the United Workers Union. Nuatali has continued to build on her first-term success that delivered progressive financial sustainability while protecting local jobs and services, creating momentum for positive change through consistent hard work, stability and collaboration.
City of Newcastle
Nuatali represents Newcastle on the ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability Oceania Regional Executive Committee and is Chair of the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate & Energy Oceania Committee. Regionally, Nuatali is Chair of the Hunter Joint Organisation Standing Committee for the
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Nuatali is Newcastle’s second female Lord Mayor, after popular 1970s-era mayor Joy Cummings, and she is the youngest Lord Mayor of Newcastle. Nuatali was raised and educated in Newcastle; she is married with three children and has enjoyed a representative sporting career in basketball.
