He is best known for his 1998 debut novel, Deadly, Unna?, a rites-of-passage story which uses Australian rules football as a backdrop to explore race relations in a small town in South Australia.
[1] The novel won several awards, selling over 200,000 copies, and was adapted into a 2002 film titled Australian Rules.
He graduated from James Cook University with a degree in marine biology.
His award-winning novel Deadly Unna won Children's Book of the Year in 1998 and was made into a feature film Australian Rules in 2002.
[3] Deadly Unna also won him the 1999 Children's Peace Literature Award.