Professional Experience

• Appointed Shadow Minister for Financial Management and Housing Strategy, Industrial Relations and the Illawarra, January 2009.
• Appointed Shadow Treasurer and Shadow Minister for the Illawarra, March 2007.
• Appointed Shadow Minister for Infrastructure, Housing and Commerce, November 2006. 
• Appointed Shadow Minister for Infrastructure and Assistant Shadow Minister for Planning, March 2006.
• Appointed, Shadow Minister for Finance and Shadow Minister for Infrastructure, September 2005.
• Appointed, Special Adviser on Infrastructure Planning to the New South Wales Opposition, January 2002.
  
• Member, New South Wales Legislative Council from November 2000.
• Partner, Freehill, Hollingdale and Page, National Law Firm, 1983 to 2000. Clients included Sydney Water, Lend Lease, Commonwealth Bank, Qantas, Leightons, Macquarie Bank, George Weston Foods and Sheraton Hotels.
  Major projects included Olympic Stadium, Eraring Power Station, M2 and M5 motorways, Parramatta Commonwealth Office complex, No. 1 O’Connell Street, Raleigh Park, Liberty Grove Concord, State Rail/State Treasury debt for equity swap, Australian Iron and Steel Wollongong, Airports privatisations.
  
• Director, Comland Ltd., St. Marys Land Ltd., Footscray Land Ltd, 2000. These companies held the Federal Government interest in former defence land at St Marys, NSW and Footscray, Victoria;
• Chair, Fisheries Advisory Committee, Great Barrier Reef, Marine Park Authority, 1999-2000;
• Councillor, Law Society of New South Wales, 1999-2001;
  Member, Audit, Membership, Rural Issues and National and International Practice Committees of Law Society of New South Wales, 1999-2000;
• Trustee, NSW Lawyers’ Aborigines Education Trust Fund, 2000;
• Member, Infrastructure Committee 1994-1998; Property Law Committee 1997-1998, Property Council of Australia (NSW);
• Deputy Chair, 1995-1997, International Law Section, Law Council of Australia;
• Treasurer, 1990-1996, Member of Executive, 1989-1997, International Law Association;
• Chair, Young Lawyers’ Section, Law Society of New South Wales, 1982-1983;
• Founding Member, Mandatory Continuing Legal Education Board, 1986-1988;
• Member, Institute of Technology Law Course Advisory Committee 1980-1982;

Public Community Activities

• Member, Care Sydney Fundraising Committee, 1999-2000;
• Director, Clean Up Australia Pty. Ltd. until 2000;
• Director, Clean Up The World Pty. Ltd. until 2000;
• Former Member, Lord Howe Island Museum Steering Committee;
• Inaugurated Law Week 1983, Convenor Law Week, 1984;
• Founder, Sydney Summer School, a joint venture with the Law Faculty of Sydney University, 1990-1992;
• Former Member, National Trust NSW;
• Former Member, Art Gallery of NSW Society;
• Former Member, Home Owners Against Land Tax Inc. (HALT);
• Member, Academic Board, University of Sydney, 1976-1977;
• Member, Faculty of Law, University of Sydney, 1976-1977;
• Director and Vice President, University of Sydney Union, 1977-1978;
• Member, Board of Governors, College of law, 1978-1979;
• Adviser, Double Bay Residents’ Association, 1989-1990
• Established syndicate proposing to conserve “Hillview”, former Governor’s residence at Sutton Forest, 1993 shortlisted;