He was preselected to replace Greens MLC Sylvia Hale on the Greens' upper house ticket for the 2011 state election in 2009, but Hale resigned in September 2010 to allow him to contest the election as a sitting MLC.
He was preselected to the first position on the Greens' upper house ticket for the 2011 state election in 2009, but after Sylvia Hale resigned from the Legislative Council in September 2010 he was deemed to be eligible to take her position. This will allow him to contest the election as a sitting MLC.