Biography

Parliamentary service

• Elected to the Senate for Victoria 2010. Defeated at general elections 2016.

Committee service

• Joint Standing: Parliamentary Library served from 18.8.2011 to 5.8.2013
• Joint Statutory: Corporations and Financial Services served from 4.12.2013 to 9.5.2016
• Senate Select: Australia's Food Processing Sector served from 7.7.2011 to 16.8.2012; Scrutiny of New Taxes served from 7.7.2011 to 1.11.2011; Wind Turbines served from 27.11.2014 to 2.12.2014; Wind Turbines served as Chair from 3.12.2014 to 3.8.2015; Murray-Darling Basin Plan served from 10.8.2015 to 17.3.2016; Establishment of a National Integrity Commission served from 24.2.2016 to 9.5.2016
• Senate Standing: Parliamentary Library served from 18.8.2011 to 11.11.2013; Appropriations, Staffing and Security served from 4.12.2013 to 9.5.2016

Parliamentary party positions

• Independent. Served: 04.09.2014 to 02.07.2016
• Democratic Labor Party. Served: 01.07.2011 to 04.09.2014

Party positions

• Vice-President of the Democratic Labour Party (Vic.) from 2008 to 2009.
• President of the Democratic Labour Party (Vic.) from 2009.
• Vice-President of the Federal Democratic Labour Party from 2009.

Personal

• Born: 21.7.1966, Melbourne, Australia
• Died: 16.6.2020, Hepburn Springs
• Gender: Male
• Marital Status: Married

Qualifications and occupation before entering Federal Parliament

• Apprenticeship in Structural Steel Fabrication.
• Blacksmith and boilermaker from 1983 to 2011.