He competed in the 2000 Summer Olympics and his best international achievement was a sixth place at the 2003 World Indoor Championships.
He claimed to be a direct descendant of John Batman, the founder of Melbourne[1][dubious – discuss] but John Batman's only son, John Charles Batman, died aged just 8 years old, reportedly by drowning in the Yarra River, but rumoured to have died of syphilis which his father carried.
Batman was married to Nova Peris, an Olympic and Commonwealth Games gold medallist, in March 2002 but they separated in 2010.
Batman had a child, Liberty, in late 2011 with partner Natalie Sainsbury.
[2] On 26 June 2012, Batman was killed in a car crash at Marrakai, southeast of Darwin, Northern Territory.