Personal
- Marital status: Married with 2 children
- Residence: Hyde Park (last 23 years)
- Interests: Family, furniture / design, heritage
Education
- Furnishing trades apprenticeship (Marleston TAFE)
- Salisbury High School
- St Augustine s Primary School, Salisbury
Employment
- State Member of Parliament (2006-)
- Managing Director, own manufacturing / retail company in Adelaide and Sydney (1984 - 2006)
- Apprenticeship with Norman Turner & Nottage in Adelaide (1980 - 1984)
Community
- Former member on the Board of the Women’s and Children’s Hospital (1998 – 2003)
- Former National Director Furniture Association (1998 – 2000)
- Former member of the Unley Mainstreet Association (1995 – 2000)
- Former President, Unley Chamber of Commerce (1995)
- Former Councilor, Local Government (1991 – 1993)
- Former Chair of the Unley Primary School Governing Council (2000 -2003)
- Former member of the Unley Primary School Governing Council (2000 – 2008)
- Former member of the Unley High School Governing Council (2006 – 2011)
- Honorary member of the Rotary Club of Unley
- Honorary member of the Rotary Club of Hyde Park
- Associate member of the Unley RSL
- Member Friends of Unley Library
- Member Broughton Art Society
- Member Friends of the City of Unley Society (F.O.C.U.S)
- Delivery duties with Meals on Wheels Unley (relief driver)
- Patron of the Society of Auctioneers and Appraisers SA
- Patron of the Indoor Soccer Association of SA
- Myrtle Bank Neighbourhood Watch
- Adelaide Parklands Preservation Association
Parliament
- Shadow Minister for Planning, Transport and Infrastructure
- Parliamentary Economic and Finance Committee (current)
- Parliamentary Social Development Committee (2010-2014)
- Parliamentary Public Works Committee (2007-2010)
- Parliamentary Committee on Occupational Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation
- Parliamentary Select Committee on Balancing Work and Life Responsibilities