Born in Bathurst, New South Wales, where his father Gordon Joseph (known as the Baron) was based in the Army, Aulich grew up in Scottsdale, Tasmania.
Aulich also chaired the ALP caucus committee which recommended to Cabinet that gay people should legally be permitted to enter or remain in the Armed Forces.
He is Chair of the Clubs NSW Code Authority and the Privacy Committee of the Association of Market and Social Research Organisations.
Aulich's play "Moonlight at Midday" was produced at the National Playwrights' Conference in the late 1990s and a book of poetry "Acacia Road" was published in 1976.
A second novel, Clapperland, a black comedy about the nexus between social media, mega churches and politics was published in 2020 and a third, "Sete", which satirized right wing rebellions in France, in 2021.