Background
He was born at Mayfield in New South Wales to Patrick James and Hazel Marjorie Foley.
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He was born at Mayfield in New South Wales to Patrick James and Hazel Marjorie Foley.
He was educated at Raymond Terrace and then at East Sydney Technical College before studying at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), where he received a Bachelor and Masters degree in commerce.
From 1954 to 1960 he served in Singapore for the Royal Australian Air Force, subsequently serving as a flight instructor from 1962 to 1968. He was an economics lecturer at UNSW from 1966 to 1968, when he commenced his Doctor of Philosophy at the Australian National University, completing it in 1972. He worked as a consultant for the Defence Department and from 1974 to 1975 was a senior research economist with the Australian Wool Corporation.
In 1976 he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Council as a Liberal member for Boronia.
He served until his defeat in 1982, after which he became chairman of the Industrial Research and Development Board.