Career
He was previously a carpenter and building contractor. His campaign established a groundswell of public support and Queensland was the first state to abolish inheritance taxes in 1977. The Commonwealth and other states followed soon after by abolishing their respective inheritance and gift taxes.
He was defeated in the 1974 election.
He later contested the 1975 Bass by-election as an independent, and at the 1980 federal election for the far-right, anti-immigration Progressive Conservative Party.
