Biography

Parliamentary service

• Declared elected 22.12.2017 as a Senator for New South Wales by the High Court of Australia, vice F Nash (disqualified under section 44 of the Constitution). Defeated at general elections 2019.

Committee service

• Senate Standing: Senators' Interests from 5.2.2018 to 30.6.2019.
• Senate Select: Political Influence of Donations from 5.2.2018 to 6.6.2018; Stillbirth Research and Education from 28.3.2018 to 4.12.2018 (Deputy Chair from 6.4.2018 to 4.12.2018).
• Senate Legislative and General Purpose Standing: Education and Employment: Legislation from 5.2.2018 to 3.4.2019; Legal and Constitutional Affairs: Legislation from 5.2.2018 to 30.6.2019 (Chair from 10.10.2018 to 22.10.2018); Education and Employment: References from 5.2.2018 to 30.6.2019; Legal and Constitutional Affairs: References from 5.2.2018 to 30.6.2019.
• Joint Statutory: Intelligence and Security from 12.9.2018 to 30.6.2019.
• Joint Standing: Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade from 5.2.2018 to 30.6.2019; Migration from 5.2.2018 to 30.6.2019.

Personal

• Born 11.4.1950, East Melbourne, Australia
• Married

Qualifications and occupation before entering Federal Parliament

• Graduate.
• BA (University of NSW).
• BEc (University of Queensland).
• Defence and Security Commentator.
• Consultant on Defence issues.
• Director, National Aerial Firefighting Centre.
• Co-author, Operation Sovereign Borders, 2013.
• Prime Minister's Special Envoy, Operation Sovereign Borders from 2013 to 2014.
• Special Adviser to the Defence Minister, 2014.

Military Service

• Major-General.
• Defence Materiel Advocate.
• Adviser, Vice Chief of the Defence Force on Joint Warfighting.
• Commander, Australian Defence Colleges.
• Officer, Australian Army.
• Chief of Operations, Coalition Forces, Iraq.

Honours

• Member of the Order of Australia.
• Officer of the Order of Australia.

Publications

• Running the War in Iraq HarperCollins Sydney 2008.