Sept 1957 - Dec 1958

Lanson College

Feb 1959

Migrated to Australia

June 1959 - Dec 1959

Left Bunbury high school (Western Australia) to labour on a dairy farm. Milked 100 cows, twice a day, 7 days a week. Developed muscles, a liking for beef-steak breakfasts, a very small bank account - and a slightly jaundiced view of dairy cattle.

1960 - 61

Attempted to matriculate from 'crammer' school. A hopeless task. Too much - sunshine, beach, peer pressure to play rather than work. Took up amateur competitive cycling (track) and attempted to take up girls. More successful at the former.

1962-63

Sheet-metal worker.

1963-64

Cadet journalist in rural Western Australia.

1964

Began working as surveyor's rodman in (conventional) seismic survey exploration; Warburton Ranges on the border of Western Australian and South Australia.

1965

Transferred to Kimberley Ranges (northern Western Australia), working down towards The Great Sandy desert, (vibrator and thumper).

1966

'Promoted' to office job in Perth - clerical work then analog compositor/printer operator for reproduction of field records.

1967

Shifted to surface gravity meter surveys, (4 WD and helicopter), and got married.

1968

Left seismic survey (after a trip to Queensland!).

1968 -69

Taxi driver, truck driver and assistant clerk to an accountant for six weeks (which exceeded my competence by five weeks!)

1969

Photographer's assistant in commercial studio in Perth.

1970 -77

Press photographer-with 'The West Australian' and 'The Daily News', Perth's only morning and afternoon newspapers (respectively).

1977-78

Commercial photographer

1978

Cook in a Mexican restaurant

1979

Divorced

1979 - 82

Undergraduate student at Murdoch University.

1983 - present

Lecturer, Murdoch University, and Curtin University of Technology, Western Australia: Media, Communication and Cultural Studies.

1994

Completed PhD

Singing, sailing, golf.