Roles have included senior public servant in the Queensland Cabinet Office under Premier Wayne Goss, Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Council of Recycling (ACOR), the peak industry body for the resource recovery industry, a senior university advisor, board chair and member of parliament.
He is a regular media commentator and keynote speaker on resource recovery and the recycling industry internationally.
Musgrove resigned from the Labor Party in December 2000, after he was scapgoated over branchstacking on the basis of his testimony to the Shepherdson Inquiry that had "probably" merely witnessed another persons electoral enrolment form.
[3] Musgrove went on to work as a government relations consultant then as Senior Manager and Adviser at Griffith University.
He has served as a board member or advisor of the following organizations: As a chief executive officer of ACOR, Musgrove has been a regular media commentator in The Courier-Mail, and on ABC Television news and current affairs, discussing issues related to the recycling and the resource recovery industry.