On 11 February 1961 he married Denielle Hughes, with whom he had two children; that year he also joined the Morwell branch of the Labor Party.
He served in the Citizen Military Forces from 1961 to 1966 and was branch vice-president of the Federated Engine Drivers' and Firemen's Association from 1964 to 1967.
He sat on Morwell Shire Council from 1968 to 1971 and was chairman of the McMillan federal electorate assembly in 1979.
He resigned from the Labor Party in 1988 and ran unsuccessfully as an independent candidate for the Legislative Assembly seat of Morwell in that year's state election, and again in the 1992 election.
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