[1] During this time, Corney worked for the Anglican Diocese of Melbourne as an assistant curate and later youth chaplain from 1966 to 1973.
[1] In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Corney pioneered a new youth ministry program which saw him work in contemporary Christian worship in counter-cultural forms.
This came in the form of a more contemporary evangelical outreach, with social justice and a large youth and young adults program.
[2] Within a decade of being vicar, he had turned around an ailing local parish, to later become the largest Anglican congregation in the Melbourne diocese with over 1,000 parishioners every Sunday at worship.
Outside of St Hilary's, Corney researched and lectured at his former alma mater, Ridley College as well as authoring many books and other Christian commentaries on issues occurring throughout the world.