Audie completed 25 years of ADF service in the Australian Regular Army and the RAF, including operational tours with the SAS Regiment and the Australian Army Training Team Vietnam (AATTV). He is a double-language graduate (Vietnamese and Chinese) of the RAAF School of Languages. After retiring as a Squadron Leader in 1990, Audie pursued an Australian Federal Police career as an Asian crime specialist, before moving to the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, where he ended his working life as a senior diplomat in China. Audie remains passionate about veterans' causes. He co-founded Wandering Warriors in 2013 and became its first CEO. He stepped down from that position in 2015 to become the company secretary when Wandering Warriors became a public company. Audie has a Master of Arts degree in International Relations (Deakin, 1996), a Diploma in Chinese Language (HKU, 1977) and Diploma in Strategic Intelligence (US DIA College, 1986).