Drum served as the Victorian Minister for Sports and Veterans Affairs in the Napthine Ministry from March to December 2014.

After graduating from high school, he became a carpenter and joiner, running his own shed construction business for several years.

At the end of the 2001 season, Allan was replaced by Chris Connolly as Fremantle Football Club senior coach.

[10] After losing the Fremantle job, Drum moved back to Victoria and took up a position as senior coach of the Bendigo Diggers in the Victorian Football League.

The situation was similar to Fremantle, where the Diggers finished the season winless, with a single draw against the Murray Kangaroos.

[11] At the end of the 2002 season, Drum decided to retire from football and move into politics, successfully seeking Nationals pre-selection for the Victorian Legislative Council seat of North Western Province at the 2002 state election.

[14] Despite being a newly elected member with no previous political experience, Drum advanced quickly in the Nationals' ranks.

[18] He resigned from the Victorian Legislative Council on 26 May, prior to the closing date for the nomination of candidates for the federal election.

It had been held by either the Liberals or Nationals since its creation in 1949; the Coalition would have won it with well over 70 percent of the vote in a "traditional" two-party matchup with Labor.

[24] After an unsuccessful leadership challenge against McCormack in February 2020, it was reported that McCormack has made an unprecedented intervention to attempt to forestall the closure of a 40-bed aged care facility in Drum's electorate by procuring a grant within four days that raised questions about due process.

[28] Having condemned Barilaro for alleged leaking, later the same day Drum would express shock that copies of misogynistic text messages about Barilaro's wife that Drum had exchanged in a WhatsApp group with party colleagues Darren Chester and Kevin Hogan had been leaked to the media.