Biography

Parliamentary service

• Elected to the Senate for South Australia 2016. Defeated at general elections 2022.

Parliamentary positions

• Temporary Chair of Committees from 2.7.2019.

Committee service

• Joint Standing: National Broadband Network served from 11.10.2016 to 11.4.2019; National Broadband Network served from 1.8.2019 to 30.6.2022
• Senate Select: Funding for Research into Cancers with Low Survival Rates served from 1.12.2016 to 28.11.2017; Red Tape served from 16.2.2017 to 3.12.2018; Autism served from 27.11.2019 to 4.12.2019; Autism served as Deputy Chair from 5.12.2019 to 24.2.2021; Tobacco Harm Reduction served from 8.10.2020 to 18.12.2020

Parliamentary party positions

• Nick Xenophon Team. Served: 02.07.2016 to 10.04.2018
• Centre Alliance. Served: 10.04.2018 to 30.06.2022
• Nick Xenophon Team Whip in the Senate from 30.11.2017 to 10.4.2018.
• Centre Alliance Whip in the Senate from 10.4.2018.

Party positions

• Secretary of the Nick Xenophon Team from 2013 to 2014.
• Treasurer of the Nick Xenophon Team from 2014 to 2017.
• Treasurer of Centre Alliance from 2017.
• Secretary and Treasurer of Centre Alliance from 2018.

Personal

• Born: 2.12.1957, Adelaide, Australia
• Gender: Male
• Marital Status: Married

Qualifications and occupation before entering Federal Parliament

• Bank officer from 1974 to 1979.
• Radio sales from 1980 to 1984.
• Publishing/Advertising/Retail Marketing from 1985 to 1997.
• Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Retailers Association (SA) from 1998 to 2004.
• Self-employed retailer from 2004 to 2012.
• Campaign Director from 2013 to 2016.