He currently holds the positions of Emeritus Professor at the Australian National University[1] and Deputy Chair of the Republican Movement.
[citation needed] He left South Australia soon after, working in a number of different states, before teaching overseas at the University of London.
He began advocating a republic in the early 1970s as a young academic and joined the Australian Republican Movement in the mid-1990s.
He first became significantly active as part of the ACT ARM campaign team for the 1997 Constitutional Convention elections.
Additionally, for several years he has been – along with the current Chair – one of the ARM’s two main media spokespersons, with regular appearances on television and radio.