- Dual citizen (awarded Australian citizenship in 1995)
- 1969-1973 Grazer Keplerspatzen
(boys choir)
- 1980-1981 ambulance driver
(Red Cross national service)
- 1989-1993 operated 4WD tours throughout Australia
(Waratah Adventure: Alice Springs, Cairns, Darwin, Whitsunday Islands, and more)
- Designed and published
books in print, some of which
have won literary awards
- Published e-books and a
literary magazine online since
the early days of the internet
- Wrote articles, essays and short stories for magazines, newspapers and radio; key note speaker at conferences
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- Magazine editor (Perspektive 1982-1984, Gangan Viertel 1987-1988, Gangway from 1996)
- Book editor (with Andreas Puff-Trojan: Textwechsel, Sonderzahl Verlag, Vienna 1992)
- Translator (essays, short stories and poems from Australian English into the German language)
- 2006 elected director, World Federation of Austrians Abroad (AÖWB)
- 2008-2010 InterNations Ambassador for Sydney
- 2010 reelected a second four-year-term as member of the board of directors of the World Federation of Austrians Abroad
- 2006 diagnosed with early onset Parkinson's disease, and now an Ambassador for Parkinson's support groups
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