I am an Aboriginal Academic and come from the Wiradyuri/Negemba Nations in Western NSW. I am a community Leader and community elder emerging in Bathurst. My fields of interest in academia are Truth Telling, Aboriginal Australians and the Media, Criminal Justice, Data Sovereignty, Australian History, Australian Politics and the Law, White Supremacy in Australia, Australian Policing, Defence Technology, Modern Russian and the Soviet Union History, Male Gerontology, Cyber Security and White-Collar Crime in Australia.

Before joining the School of Indigenous Australian Studies at Charles State University I worked in the Federal Public Service in the Australian Capital Territory within the Department of Home Affairs specifically in the fields of Counter Terrorism, Anti Money Laundering, Anti Human Trafficking, and Telecommunication Data Protection Cyber Security both in practice and in policy development. I have held orgainiser roles within the trade union movement and have been a former political staffer in both the Queensland and Western Australian Parliaments. I come from a household of shearers and started out in my working career as a shears cook.