Early Life and Education
Birmingham was born in Liverpool, England in the United Kingdom, but grew up in Ipswich, Queensland, Australia, having moved to the country with his parents in 1970. Birmingham received his higher education at Saint Edmund's College in Ipswich, Australia and at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia. Bimrmingham's only stint of full-time employment was as a researcher at the Australian Department of Defence.
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