After leaving school in 1964 he joined The Sydney Morning Herald as a copyboy and then moved onto Shipping Newspapers where he completed his apprenticeship as a compositor in 1970.

[9][10][11][12][13] It was during this time he started to niche market into specific areas and in fundraising he produced the award-winning docudrama for the Royal Flying Doctor Service- An Hour and a Half from Anywhere[14](1989).

He also secured a co-production with Fuji TV as Australian producer on the comedy adventure The Hitchhiker (1992) which was based on a short story by Roald Dahl and screened extensively in Japan.

His first attempt to make the controversial bikie movie, Brothers at War,[15] which had distribution and presales through UIP and Channel 7, but failed to reach production.

[23][24] However the project was rejected for production funding by Screen Australia and a major controversy erupted when it was revealed a conflict of interest could have taken place.