Biometrics Institute. Aulich and Co provides polling and focus group services for its clients. He is Chair of the Clubs NSW Code Authority and the Privacy Committee of the Association of Market and Social Research Organisations. He was Senior Vice President of Professions Australia until 2012 and is the Chair of the Biometrics Institute's Privacy Committee. He later became chief executive officer of national organisations in the education sector and in 2009 was appointed chief executive officer of the Australian Institute of Quantity Surveyors which represents cost managers in the construction industry across Australia and the Asia-Pacific region. He retired from the AIQS in February 2012 to return as chief executive officer of Aulich & Co which provides market research, polling, communications and business strategies to associations and business. In 2012 he was appointed Chair of the Industry Reference Panel of the University of New South Wales-led consortium (Alliance for Building Excellence) which aims to set bench-marks for improving efficiencies, cost controls and quality in Australia's construction industry. In the same year he was part of the Australian Standards Organisation delegation to Paris which sets international standards in biometric usage for areas such as passport controls and identity protection. He was a guest speaker at conferences in both Paris and London, speaking about the challenges of privacy protection and new technologies. Personal life Aulich has five children; Matthew, Clair, Rachael, Alexandra and Lucy and seven grandchildren, Ieva, Joseph, Esther, William, Saul, Ronnie, Zoe and Harry. Writing Aulich's fictional book The River's End was published in 1992, covering the Franklin River dispute. It was selected by the Australian newspaper as one of the year's best crime novels. Aulich's play "Moonlight at Midday" was produced at the National Paywrights' Conference in the late 1990s and a book of poetry "Acacia Road" was published in 1976. A second novel, Clapperland, a black comedy about the nexus between social media, mega churches and politics was published in 2020 and a third, "Sete", which satirized right wing rebellions in France, in 2021. References 1945 births Living people Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of Australia Members of the Tasmanian House of Assembly Members of the Australian Senate Members of the Australian Senate for Tasmania University of Tasmania alumni 20th-century Australian politicians