He published The Little Red Schoolbook in the 1970s (widely criticised by morals campaigners for its subversive content),[1] Tim Shadbolt's autobiographical Bullshit and Jellybeans, and significant works on artists C. F. Goldie and Gustavus von Tempsky.
Discharged ten years later, he began a new publishing venture, reissuing some of his earlier publications in edited and updated form.
[2] In 2001 he was accused by the London Daily Mirror Sorted column by Penman & Greenwood, in a report headlined "Full medal racket", of targeting national heroes in a publishing con.
In 2005 he was again in financial difficulty when the New South Wales Department of Fair Trading was granted an injunction banning him from marketing a range of non-existent publications about prominent Australians.
[4] Upon his death his daughter Imogen described him to journalists Kendall Hutt and Mandy Te as a "sensitive, artistic, kind of guy".