Richard Beasley is a Senior Counsel at the Sydney Bar. He was the Counsel Assisting the Murray-Darling Basin Plan Royal Commission, established by the South Australian Weatherill Government in 2018 and conducted by Bret Walker SC. Apart from that, he is the author of five commercial novels, the best-known of which is Hell Has Harbour Views, which was adapted for TV and screened by the ABC, starring Lisa McCune and Matt Day.