Complex sentence: Having served as a Methodist minister, he afterwards became a Uniting Church minister in various parts of Victoria-Morwell, Eltham, and Fitzroy-before being elected for the northern Melbourne metropolitan electoral Division of Batman to the Australian House of Representatives in 1977.
Split into simpler sentences: Having served as a Methodist minister, he afterwards became a Uniting Church minister in various parts of Victoria-Morwell, Eltham, and Fitzroy. He was elected for the northern Melbourne metropolitan electoral Division of Batman to the House of Representatives in 1977.