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Admitted to Queens Counsel 1964
Previous occupation or roles:
May 1969 to November 1973: Commonwealth Solicitor General
1970 to 1974: Australian Delegate to United Nations Commission on International Trade Law
May 1974: Elected as a member of the House of Representatives in the Australian Parliament
1975 to 1977: Commonwealth Attorney-General
1977 to 1981: Commonwealth Minister for Home Affairs (including responsibility for arts, sport, women’s affairs and external territories)
1977 to 1980: Minister for the Capital Territory
1979 to 1981: Established the Australian Institute of Sport in Canberra
1980 to 1981: Minister for Home Affairs and the Environment
1981 to 1983: Judge of the Federal Court of Australia
1986 to 1996: Member of several panels of arbitrators in arbitrations relating to the value of and other issues concerning oil and gas produced off-shore Australia
1995 to date: Judge of the Court of Arbitration for Sport established by International Olympic Committee at Lausanne
1998 – 2002: Judge of Ad Hoc Divisions of Court of Arbitration for Sport Commonwealth Games Kuala Lumpur (1998), Sydney Olympics (2000) and the Winter Olympics (Salt Lake City) (2002).
2000 to date: Judge of the Oceania Division of the Court of Arbitration for Sport
2007 to date: Member of the Council of the National Judicial College of Australia as the Commonwealth Attorney-General’s representative.
Particular cases
1973: Appeared in the International Court of Justice as Counsel for Australia in the Nuclear Test Case
1986 to date: Acted as arbitrator and as counsel in number of arbitrations
Mid 1990s to date: Acted as mediator frequently in more recent times and have acted as counsel in mediations on numerous occasions