Mark Callaghan

Mark is a singer-songwriter, performer, screen composer and has had a longtime parallel career in music publishing. An APRA writer member since 1980, Mark was elected to the APRA board in 2020.

Mark previously worked at APRA AMCOS in an R&D role where he focused on analysing and responding to the emerging opportunities in the global music ecosystem. He has held senior roles at Shock Music Publishing, AMPAL and Music Sales Australia (now Wise Music) and was an Adjunct Professor at QUT and a Director of Support Act.

He is best known as the singer-songwriter with GANGgajang and The Riptides and has written hundreds of songs including the classic ‘Sounds Of Then (This Is Australia),’ and continues to release new music.