 He has since become a real estate developer in Australia, where his company conducted a major redevelopment of Townsville's CBD.In 2010 McCracken was fined $182,500 for clearing bushland on a property he owned near Airlie Beach in 2007.McCracken pleaded guilty to nine charges related to clearing and carrying out unauthorised earthworks on more than 18ha of sensitive bushland at his wife's 387ha property, as well as felling trees in a strip of state-owned land adjoining his property.