Dauan Island, Torres Strait, 2007Almost 3 years old and ready to take on the world – Raymond Terrace, 1969First day of Kindy – Darwin, July 1970
Grade 1, Darwin, 1972
With Tara, Melbourne, 1976With friend, Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary, Gold Coast, 1983Receiving the Senior Biology Prize, The King’s School, Speech Day, 1984Toowoomba to Gladstone cycle trip – 1985 — it was a hot day!Cycle tour western Victoria, 1987
21st birthday, 1987 – with Mum and Dad
Graduating from the theatre programme DDIAE (now UniSQ) – left to right: Katrina, myself, Lyndal, Dad – 1988A guest at Crazies Comedy Restaurant, 1989 – I would soon end up working there and having a ball!Crazies Comedy Restaurant, Brisbane, 1991With Buddy – -Rowes Bay, Townsville, 1998Somewhere in England, 1999Edinburgh, Scotland 1999 – Jenny and I did such a fun bikeride in Europe then
Directing my first film In My Image – 2002
1st Assistant Director on “Tongmaster” – April 2003In Epemeavo village, Papua New Guinea, 2007Springbrook National Park, 2008At the Screen Australia stand, MIPCOM, Cannes, France 2009
Directing It’s Brisbane Tonight Wow! 2011
Crows Nest, 2011 – bike ride around the Darling DownsCycling with Jenny around Brisbane, 2012Cumquido Indiminiko deDukakis in Human Interface Parser – 2013Finally finishing my first novel The Forest of Life – Nov 2015 – it was a long process, and finished a few months after this photo50th birthday – 2016 – left to right: Rob, Dennis, myself, MattA break in filming Honeysuckle Way – that’s an anamorphic lense on the front of my 600D – Jan 2017Publicity photo for my third novel Shows So Fair – it had nothing to do with horses, but Shandy is so sweet she might as well be in the photo! – 2019With Matt, after one of our Smooth End of the Pineapple shows – Anywhere Festival, Brisbane, 2019I shot corporate videos and TVC’s on and off for quite a few years – this is March 2021Recording bird calls, Redwood Park, Toowoomba 2021
Don’t be a galah – vote for me! Jules on my sign for the 2024 Toowoomba Regional Council elections
With Jenny above, and our children below – Queensland Local Government Elections 2024 – I didn’t get in, but I know I’ve made a difference to environmental policies in the region, so that’s good
World Science Festival, Toowoomba 2024 – I was a guest quizmaster and asked a question about parrots (which none of them got!!)It was a great thrill to get to Cooktown on one of our holidays up north. Just love the tropics. Jan 2025Explaining the different ways birds use the same piece of habitat – at a land clearing forum in Highfields, 2025
Speaking at a land clearing protest in Highfields, 2025. The Toowoomba Regional Council area has no tree protections and developers usually bulldoze the lot.
Happiness is a cockatoo. July 2025Speaking at the Care4Esk day – Esk, August 2025
So happy to be working for Birdlife Australia 🙂 2025
The Lockyer-Toowoomba Birds on Farms official project launch, The project started in Jan 2025, but we did a launch for participants, the public and media in Oct 2025
