My two children, western Sydney, running, bike riding.
Music
Pretenders, Rolling Stones, Pearl Jam, Missy Higgins, The Bangles, Johnny Cash, The Ramones, Matchbox 20, my daughter's singing.
Movies
The Castle, Wag the Dog, Mad Max, Love Actually, Fargo, Sideways, Storm Boy, Chariots of Fire, Rocky.
Television
The news, Extras, Poirot, Sports, The Office (Slough version), Man versus Nature, World Safari, Crocodile Hunter (my kids love it).
Books
I have only written one.
Heroes
My children
What do you do?
I am a dance teacher / choreographer / performer.
Have you had any training?
Not formal training but I have worked really hard on my craft. I was fortunate enough to be selected for a group called Scandal'us which was formed during the second season of Pop Stars. During that time I was able to work with other professionals in the industry which was one of the best forms of training for me.
I am also a dance teacher - whenever I have free time I am always getting together with other dancers and choreographers to work on technique and style to keep it fresh for my students and myself.
What Style of dance do you teach?
I have taught Hip Hop for the past few years.
Do you still perform?
Yeah I have gig’s on every now and then but most of my time at the moment has been spent in the studio and teaching.
What advise would you give someone wanting to get into the entertainment industry?
It’s a tough industry to crack…but worth it! Work hard, although I didn’t have much formal training I would highly recommend it and believe in yourself!
Photographed above with me is James Pitts CEO of Odyssey House (main beneficiary of charity fundraiser) for more information check out my everyday hero page
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Photographed above Martin Cross (Novartis), Dominique Baldock (Bear Cottage) and Myself
I grew up in Sydney's western suburbs with my six siblings - yes six! No jokes about a lack of TV, please.
After leaving school, I started my first job as an apprentice grease monkey. I saw the great Cliff Young run past our shop and I said to my boss, "Look at that old man shuffling along and all those people clapping. I could do that on my ear".
After my boss clipped me around the ear and told me to get back to work, I thought more about it and started to train, and train and train.
Soon I was running in the Sydney to Melbourne ultra-marathon, with Cliff Young as my inspiration.
Before I knew it, I was running around the world and well, Australia - literally - 14,500km around our wide brown land, 80kms a day for 191 days.
Some people say it is madness punishing my body with ultra-marathon running. Perhaps they have a point, but running has helped me raise money for fantastic charity organisations and through the pain and the effort, has made me who I am today. The sport has also allowed me to prove to myself, and hopefully to others, that you can achieve great things by putting one foot in front of the other.
In 2001, I received my greatest honour when the people of western Sydney elected me to the Federal Parliament as the Member for Macarthur. It is the best job because I get to serve the residents of this great area and I get to meet real people who continue to inspire me through their actions and their selflessness.
My favourite saying is "Never Give Up" oh, and Winston Churchill's "If you are going through hell, keep going".
I believe that Australia is a great country and I know that Australia can only be made a better country through "The Right Leadership" of the Coalition. My family is far better off under a Lib/Nat Federal Government. We did not buy our first computer until 1998. I was 15. I know your smart Australia. Vote for the Coalition. Don't bring Australia to it's knees again through Labor.
Labor plans to throw out all of the many policies they have copied from the Libs/Nats - Coalition. If they get in and mismanage the economy again they will not be able to address climate change in a balanced and sensible way amongst other things.
Thnaks for the add. I think what you are doing with Myspace (which is quite the time waster normally) is one of the better ideas I have seen put into play. Kudos.
