Executive Officer, Irrigation Research and Extension Committee
State Member for Murrumbidgee, 1965-69
Member of the Joint Committee on Broadcasting of Parliamentary Proceedings 1969-72
Minister for Immigration 1972-74
Australian Commissioner for Community Relations 1975-82
Member of the Order of Australia 1985
In a condolence motion speech Labor Party Leader Kim Beazley remembered him: “for his passionate advocacy of equality, difference and opportunity and for his exuberance, flamboyance and colour”.
