He has pursued the case of Juanita Nielsen for over twenty-five years, forcing a federal parliamentary inquiry and a secret reopening of the case under the personal orders of the former NSW Police Commissioner, Peter Ryan, and uncovering a witness to the murder. He worked in the Canberra Press Gallery for many years, before leaving to write books fulltime. He is author of The Boy from Boree Creek, the biography of Tim Fischer, and is co-author of Tim Fischer's Outback Heroes.