Background
Lee was born in Darwin in the Northern Territory, and attended Darwin Public School, Longreach State School, Ingham Rural School, Toowoomba Grammar School and finally the Victorian College of Pharmacy.
Lee was born in Darwin in the Northern Territory, and attended Darwin Public School, Longreach State School, Ingham Rural School, Toowoomba Grammar School and finally the Victorian College of Pharmacy.
He has worked as a pharmacist since 1950. From 1978 to 1980 he was commissioner of the Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works, and was a Melbourne City Councillor from 1977 to 1990 and from 1996 to 2004, serving as Deputy Lord Mayor for some of that period. He was unsuccessful on all of these occasions.