Biography

Parliamentary service

• Elected to the Senate for Queensland 2004. Defeated at general elections 2010.

Parliamentary appointments

• Member of the National Library of Australia Council from 13.6.2007 to 30.6.2011.

Parliamentary positions

• Temporary Chair of Committees from 26.6.2008 to 30.6.2011.

Committee service

• Joint Standing: Treaties served from 1.7.2005 to 20.6.2007; Parliamentary Library served as Joint Chair from 2.3.2006 to 30.6.2011; Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade served from 23.3.2007 to 30.6.2011
• Joint Statutory: Intelligence and Security served from 25.6.2009 to 30.6.2011
• Senate Legislative and General Purpose Standing: Education, Employment and Workplace Relations: Legislation served as Substitute member from 9.11.2005 to 29.11.2005; Legal and Constitutional Affairs: Legislation served as Substitute member from 9.12.2005 to 7.2.2006; Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade served from 11.9.2006 to 13.2.2008; Legal and Constitutional Affairs served from 11.9.2006 to 13.5.2009; Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport served as Substitute member from 1.3.2007 to 16.8.2007; Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade served as Deputy Chair from 14.2.2008 to 13.5.2009; Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade: Legislation served from 14.5.2009 to 30.6.2011; Legal and Constitutional Affairs: References served from 14.5.2009 to 30.6.2011; Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade: References served as Chair from 14.5.2009 to 22.6.2010; Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade: References served from 23.6.2010 to 30.6.2011
• Senate Select: Reform of the Australian Federation served from 11.5.2010 to 16.6.2010; Reform of the Australian Federation served as Chair from 17.6.2010 to 30.6.2011
• Senate Standing: Parliamentary Library served from 1.7.2005 to 30.6.2011

Conferences, delegations and visits

• Member, Parliamentary Delegation to Japan, June 2006.
• Member, Parliamentary Delegation to South Africa, Zimbabwe, Ghana and Ethiopia, April 2011.

Parliamentary party positions

• Liberal Party of Australia. Served: 01.07.2005 to 30.06.2011

Party positions

• Chair of the Liberal Party Sherwood Branch (Qld) from 1997 to 1999.
• Chair of the Liberal Party Foreign Affairs and Trade Committee from 1997 to 1998.
• Member of the Liberal Party State Executive (Qld) from 1999 to 2003.
• Vice Chair of the Liberal Party Development Committee from 1999 to 2002.
• Member of the Liberal Party Central Campaign Committee, 2003.

Other positions

• President of the Canadian Institute of International Affairs (Halifax, Nova Scotia Branch) from 1982 to 1983.
• President of the Australian Institute of International Affairs (Qld. Branch) from 1994 to 1995.
• Member of the Australian Institute of International Affairs National Executive from 1994 to 1995.
• Member of the Australian Institute of International Affairs Research Committee from 1995 to 1997.
• Member of the Australian Committee to the Committee for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific from 1996.
• Member of the Australian Committee to the Pacific Economic Cooperation Council from 1997 to 1999.
• Member of the Australia Indonesia Institute Board from 1997 to 2001.
• Member of the Foreign Affairs Council from 1997 to 2001.
• Member of the Australian Journal of International Affairs Editorial Board from 1997 to 2002.

Personal

• Born: 5.12.1948, Melbourne, Australia
• Died: 10.1.2017
• Gender: Male
• Marital Status: Married

Qualifications and occupation before entering Federal Parliament

• PhD (Dalhousie University).
• MSc(Econ) (University of Wales).
• LLB (University of Sydney).
• Commercial trainee at QANTAS, 1966.
• Solicitor, 1972.
• Research officer for the Liberal Party (UK), 1973.
• Solicitor from 1974 to 1975.
• Lecturer at the Australian National University from 1983 to 1988.
• Lecturer and Senior Lecturer at Griffith University from 1989 to 1996.
• Director of the Centre for the Study of Australia-Asia Relations at Griffith University from 1990 to 2001.
• Associate Professor of International Relations at Griffith University from 1997 to 2004.
• Visiting Fellow at the Lowy Institute for International Policy, 2005.

Military Service

• Citizen Military Forces: Officer Cadet Training Unit 1966-67.

Publications

• The Indian Ocean: perspectives on a strategic arena (joint ed. with WL Dowdy), Duke University Press, Durham, NC: 1985.
• The origins of Australian-United States involvement in the Vietnam War, 1945-1965, National Library of Canada, Ottawa: 1989.
• The future Pacific economic order: Australia's role (ed.), Australian Institute of International Affairs, Brisbane: 1993.
• The Asia-Australia Survey (joint ed.) 1994, Macmillan, Melbourne: 1994.
• The Asia-Australia Survey (joint ed.) 1995-96, Macmillan, Melbourne: 1996.
• The Asia-Australia Survey (joint ed.) 1996-97, Macmillan, Melbourne: 1997.
• Bilateralism in a multilateral era: the future of the San Francisco alliance system in the Asia-Pacific (joint ed. with William T Tow and T Hoshino), Japan Institute of International Affairs and the Centre for the Study of Australian-Asian Relations, Canberra: 1997.
• Strategic cultures in the Asia-Pacific (joint ed. with K Booth), Macmillan, London: 1999.
• Powershift: challenges for Australia in Northeast Asia (co-author with William T Tow), Australian Strategic Policy Institute, Barton, ACT: 2004.
• The emerging global order: Australian foreign policy in the 21st century, Longueville Media, Double Bay, NSW: 2008.