Retired as a Waterside Worker, Secretary N.T. Branch of the Maritime Union of Australia and a member of the National Council of the MUA in 2001 after 35 years on the Darwin Waterfront which I joined in 1966 after having worked for the previous two years as a contractor on a Rice growing / cattle raising project in the upper Adelaide River area in the N.T. installing a floodlifter 15 cusec pumping system to irrrigate Rice bays in addition to other construction work.Prior to which I was elected Manager of the Darwin Workers Club and held this position for 2 years before losing the lisence after several breaches of the Lisencing laws. Before the Workers Club, I was employed by the Department of Civil Aviation as an Airport Fireman, transferring from the Department of Works and Housing as a leading hand Carpenter. which was my first employment since arriving in Darwin in 1956.