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Born 1943 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Educated in Catholic parochial primary schools until end of 4th Class and then shifted to Marist Brothers in Mosman to attend from 5th Class until the Leaving Certificate in 5th and Final Year. Won a State Bursary to attend Marist Brothers from 6th Class. Won a Commonwealth Scholarship but on death of father before commencement of University was transferred to the Soldier's Children Education Scheme in the Repatriation Department. Attended University of Sydney full time from home doing Science and Mathematics and transferred into Medicine and commenced residence in St John's College in the campus of University. Graduated in Medicine and degree conferred in 1968. Completed Junior and Senior residency at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Camperdown. Became founding Registrar in Clinical Biochemistry and Pharmacology in RPAH in 1970 under Director Dr Bill Hensley and in that position attained Membership to Royal Australian College of Physicians.

Following my departure from RPA and disillusionment with the practice of Medicine in Australia, I commenced a Masters Qualifying in Philosophy at University of Sydney. That year there was a strike in the Philosophy Department over Feminist studies and I did not continue. After this, worked in South Vietnam at Holy Family Hospital in Qui Nhon and British branch of the Save the Children Fund taking mainly local teams into the refugee resettlement camps, slums and villages offering Maternal and Child Health services. After the fall of Saigon, worked in Dili, Portuguese Timor during the civil war and through the Unilateral Declaration of Independence and until the first Indonesian invasion initially restoring hospital services to the town and establishing Mother and Baby clinics in the local areas. A brief period was spent with the International Red Cross which followed us there after the fighting subsided but was dissatisfied with their quality of service.

Was deported from Atauro by the Governor of Timor after sheltering there overnight following message from Australian Government and International Red Cross that invasion by Indonesian troops  was imminent following their murder of the Australian journalist team over at the border.

Went to Murzipur, Bangladesh to institution called the Kumudini Welfare Trust of Bengal with undertaking to establish a rural extension scheme of Mother and Baby Clinics to the surrounding population but was only wanted as a physician in the main hospital.