He has written numerous ethnographic and etymological books, including Aboriginal Australia, The English-Gooreng/Gooreng-English Dictionary,[2] and First Names of the Polish Commonwealth (which he co-authored with William F. Hoffman).

He is also the founder and CEO of MedicReady,[7] an international award winning company in Australia that produces accident and emergency medical data first response kits and cards.

[13] His father, Zbigniew "Alan" Helon,[14] was deported to a Gulag forced labor camp in Mucznaja, Archangelsk,[15] Siberia with his family as a toddler in 1940.

Zbigniew eventually emigrated to the United Kingdom where he met his future wife (and George's mother) Elzbieta (Elizabeth)[16] Misiura.

In December of that year, the dictionary was presented to the Australian Parliament's House of Representatives by the Federal Member for the Division of Hinkler, Paul Neville, who publicly acknowledged Helon's work[9][22] In 1997, Helon was a candidate for the Constitutional Monarchists in the Australian Constitutional Convention Election.

[9] In 2001, Helon was hospitalized for 12 days with gelastic seizures and an inoperable 4.5-centimeter brain tumor associated with his Pallister-Hall syndrome.

"[45] Australian Aboriginal activist, author and filmmaker Stephen Hagan described Toowoomba as the "most racist city in Australia".

Terry White Chemists subsequently banned the sale of such dolls from any franchise nationwide and the franchisee "unreservedly apologised" for the "regrettable error".