Greg Cornwell, Canberra resident since 1966, has worked in shipping and public relations. He was a Liberal member of the advisory ACT Assembly 1974-86 and of the self-governing Assembly 1992-2004 (Speaker 1995-2001).

An obsessive traveller who has visited 125 countries, when home he enjoys politics, reading and writing and currently is publishing e-book crime novellas featuring John Order, an MLA – surprise, surprise – of the ACT Assembly.