Biography

Parliamentary service

• Elected to the Senate for New South Wales 2016. Defeated at general elections 2019.

Committee service

• Senate Select: Red Tape served from 9.11.2016 to 12.9.2018; Funding for Research into Cancers with Low Survival Rates served from 1.12.2016 to 28.11.2017; Charity Fundraising in the 21st Century served from 27.6.2018 to 14.2.2019

Parliamentary party positions

• Independent. Served: 18.06.2018 to 18.06.2018
• Pauline Hanson's One Nation. Served: 02.07.2016 to 18.06.2018
• United Australia Party [2018]. Served: 18.06.2018 to 30.06.2019
• Pauline Hanson's One Nation Whip in the Senate from 1.9.2016 to 18.6.2018.

Party positions

• Director of Pauline Hanson's One Nation from 2001 to 2003.

Personal

• Born: 25.2.1948, Cessnock, Australia
• Gender: Male
• Marital Status: Married

Qualifications and occupation before entering Federal Parliament

• DipT (Sydney Teachers' College).
• AssocDipStrucEng (Sydney TAFE).
• Apprentice Boilermaker from 1963 to 1968.
• Boilermaker from 1968 to 1970.
• Trainee Draftsman from 1971 to 1973.
• Design Draftsman from 1973 to 1978.
• Teacher of Engineering Drawing from 1978 to 1982.
• Lecturer in Teacher Education from 1982 to 1987.
• Architectural building design consultant from 1987 to 2016.

Local Government service

• Councillor, Cessnock City Council from 1987 to 1999.
• Deputy Mayor, Cessnock City Council, 1997.