He served as a member of the House of Assembly of Papua and New Guinea from 1964 to 1968, and as an advisor to One Nation leader Pauline Hanson.
[1] Born in 1937, Pasquarelli was educated at Ballarat Grammar School before studying law at the University of Queensland.
[2] He worked in the opal fields at Coober Pedy for a year, before becoming a cadet patrol officer in the Territory of Papua and New Guinea in 1961.
[2] Back in Australia, Pasquarelli unsuccessfully contested the Jagajaga electorate as the Liberal Party candidate in the 1987 federal elections, losing to the incumbent Labor MP Peter Staples.
He went to Western Australia in 1996 to assist anti-immigration former Labor MP Graeme Campbell in his re-election campaign as an independent; after the election, he became an advisor to the newly elected MP Pauline Hanson, in which capacity he reportedly wrote her maiden speech.