Editing The Wizard of New Zealand (section)

=== Australia ===
Shortly after his graduation in 1963, he was recruited by the [[University of Western Australia]] Adult Education Board to run their community arts programme. In 1967, he became a teaching fellow at the newly opened School of Sociology at the [[University of New South Wales]] in Sydney. He was required to study towards a PhD thesis, but was informally promised a lectureship once completed.{{sfn|Wizard|1998|pp=44–50}}

During this time he created a direct action reform movement called Alf (Action for Love and Freedom) and implemented what he called "The Fun Revolution". In 1968, he separated from his wife and his thesis was terminated due to insufficient progress. As his position was dependent on the continuation of his studies, he was consequently dismissed as a teaching fellow. The next year he was appointed as "Wizard" (effectively an events officer) of the University of New South Wales. He would also take on another persona, when elected as dictator of the student union. In late 1969, he was made Wizard by the [[World University Service]] of Australia and toured university campuses throughout 1970. He was able to persuade the [[Melbourne University]] Union Activities Department to appoint him their unpaid "[[Cosmologer]], Living Work of Art and [[Shaman]]" in 1971. The vice-chancellor gave him the use of the Old Pathology Lecture Theatre for his classes in synthetic cosmology and the director of the [[National Gallery of Victoria]] accepted the offer of his live body as a living work of art. At this time, shocked when the student pacifist society sent money to the [[Viet Cong]], he founded [[Alf's Imperial Army]] devoted to sensational but non-violent warfare and regularly organised battles on campus. He founded the [[Imperial British Conservative Party]] to provide a counterbalance to international [[capitalism]] and the various forms of [[Nazism]].{{sfn|Wizard|1998|pp=51–74}}

The Wizard stood unsuccessfully in three Australian federal elections, contesting [[Division of Sydney|Sydney]] in [[Electoral results for the Division of Sydney#1969|1969]],<ref>{{cite web|title=Commonwealth of Australia Legislative Election of 25 October 1969|website=Adam Carr's Election Archive|url=http://psephos.adam-carr.net/countries/a/australia/1969/1969repsnsw.txt|access-date=19 August 2022}}</ref> and [[Division of Kooyong|Kooyong]] in [[Electoral results for the Division of Kooyong#1972|1972]]<ref>{{cite web|title=Commonwealth of Australia Legislative Election of 2 December 1972|website=Adam Carr's Election Archive|url=http://psephos.adam-carr.net/countries/a/australia/1972/1972repsvic.txt|access-date=19 August 2022}}</ref> and [[Electoral results for the Division of Kooyong#1974|1974]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Commonwealth of Australia Legislative Election of 18 May 1974|website=Adam Carr's Election Archive|url=http://psephos.adam-carr.net/countries/a/australia/1974/1974repsvic.txt|access-date=19 August 2022}}</ref>