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.
• Senate Select: Political Influence of Donations from 5.2.2018; Stillbirth Research and Education from 28.3.2018 (Deputy Chair from 6.4.2018).
• 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 (Chair from 10.10.2018 to 22.10.2018); Education and Employment: References from 5.2.2018; Legal and Constitutional Affairs: References from 5.2.2018.
• Joint Statutory: Intelligence and Security from 12.9.2018.
• Joint Standing: Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade from 5.2.2018; Migration from 5.2.2018.

Personal

• Born 11.4.1950, East Melbourne, Australia
• Married

Qualifications and occupation before entering Federal Parliament

• BA (University of NSW)
• BEc (University of Queensland)
• Graduate
• 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