Dick Gross is Deputy Mayor of the City of Port Phillip, where he has been a Councillor on and off since 1996.

Dick was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia for services to the environment and local government in 2010. He was a Writer in Residence at Bayside in 2015, has written six books and was the author of a record-breaking blog for The Age on unbelief from 2011 to 2014.