He then returned to England in order to attend the University of Leeds and graduated with a double honours degree in psychology and sociology in 1963.
[3][4] Shortly after his graduation in 1963, he was recruited by the University of Western Australia Adult Education Board to run their community arts programme.
In 1967, he became a teaching fellow at the newly opened School of Sociology at the University of New South Wales in Sydney.
He was able to persuade the Melbourne University Union Activities Department to appoint him their unpaid "Cosmologer, Living Work of Art and Shaman" in 1971.
At this time, shocked when the student pacifist society sent money to the Viet Cong, he founded Alf's Imperial Army devoted to sensational but non-violent warfare and regularly organised battles on campus.
He founded the Imperial British Conservative Party to provide a counterbalance to international capitalism and the various forms of Nazism.
The city council attempted to have him arrested, but he became so popular that they made the square a public speaking area.
Wearing his costume as a false prophet of the Church of England, or his wizard's pointy hat, he has spoken there at lunchtimes in the summer months.
[10] He confronted Telecom over the colour of public telephone boxes, played for the local rugby team, heckled Christian evangelist Ray Comfort, evaded the compulsory New Zealand census and performed rain dances in Canterbury, Auckland and the Australian outback.
[12] On 8 September 2003, the Wizard's large wooden house was destroyed by a fire, which Christchurch police treated as arson.
[26] Among other topics, the documentary details the Wizard's views that women cause wars through their shopping habits and that governments with monarchies are more stable.