Parliamentary Service
Elected to the House of Representatives for Franklin, Tasmania, 1993, 1996, 1998, 2001 and 2004.

Parliamentary Positions
Member, Speaker's Panel from 7.5.96 to 8.10.01, and from 16.11.04.

Committee Service
House of Representatives Standing: Community Affairs from 12.5.93 to 29.1.96; Employment, Education and Training from 12.5.93 to 29.1.96; Privileges on 28.10.93 and 17.11.93; Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs from 29.5.96 to 8.10.01; Family and Community Affairs from 29.5.96 to 8.10.01; Selection from 18.2.02; Ageing from 20.3.02; House from 20.3.02; Members' Interests from 20.3.02;Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry from 13.5.04 to 31.8.04; Science and Innovation from 2.12.04.

Joint Statutory: Native Title from 4.5.94 to 29.3.95; Native Title and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Land Fund from 29.3.95 to 31.8.98; National Crime Authority from 9.11.94 to 29.1.96.

Conferences, Delegations and Visits
Member, Parliamentary Delegation to the Pacific, July 1993. Member, 92nd IPU Conference, Denmark and bilateral visits to Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, August-September 1994; 98th IPU Conference, Cairo, and bilateral visit to Kuwait, September 1997.

Member, Official Committee Exchange to New Zealand by Joint Committee on Native Title, August 1995.

Parliamentary Party Positions
Opposition Whip from 22.11.01.

Other Positions
Member, Parliamentary Education Office Advisory Committee.

Personal
Born 28.6.1941, Melbourne, Vic.

Married.

Qualifications and Occupation before entering Federal Parliament
Tasmanian Teachers Certificate.

Teacher and education officer.

Electorate officer to Senator the Hon. MC Tate 1988-93.