 He lectured at Yale University and at the University of Melbourne, prior to taking up tenure as an associate professor in the English Department at the University of Newcastle.He started writing for "The Australian Financial Review" in 1994, and featured for several years on the "Coodabeen Champions", on ABC Radio, as well as on "Life Matters".He was an editorial advisor for "Quadrant", a conservative literary and cultural journal, and a political reporter and columnist for "The Australian", a conservative newspaper.