He has lectured extensively to residential courses at UNE in taxation and estate planning. As a Director of ABS Building Society Ltd for 17 years he served on the Audit Committee, Risk Committee and was involved in due diligence and risk evaluation processes. Together with Julia, he conducted the Carwell Poll Dorset Stud, participating in central breeding schemes and progeny tests and an original supporter of the NSW Meat Sheep Testing Service and LAMBPLAN. For six years he was a Councillor of the Australian Poll Dorset Association and for three years served on the LAMBPLAN Committee. He qualified as a woolclasser in 1964 and currently runs a small farm east of Armidale.