Background
HILL, David was born on June 20, 1946 in Sussex, England. Son of Kathleen Hill.
historian human rights activist
HILL, David was born on June 20, 1946 in Sussex, England. Son of Kathleen Hill.
East Sydney Technology College, and University of Sydney.
I can only remember it as traumatic. The idea of nurturing and care and affection and love just didn"t enter the equation back in those days. I can remember Mum gave us some coloured writing paper so we could write to her.
I remember the other kids stealing our paper, humiliating us, tearing it up and running away.
lieutenant was only much later I realised a lot of this cruelty was that most of them didn"t have anybody to write to Hill"s early years of schooling were at Bourne Junior Primary School.
His mother arrived in Australia a few years later. Hill has since written a book about the experiences of the pupils there.
The documentary The Long Journey Home was aired on American Broadcasting Company television on 17 November 2009, detailing some of the history associated with Fairbridge Farm School and other orphanages of that time.
Prior to his rise to prominence in business circles, Hill was variously a hardware shop assistant, a sandwich cutter, a labourer on building sites, a refuse collector and gardener, he sold tennis coaching courses, worked as a barman, waiter, public bouncer, delivery agent, tutor at the University of Sydney, was a journalist, worked in investment banking, as an accountant, and was in charge of the NSW Government Ministerial Advisory Unit. In 1982, at 33 years of age, Hill was appointed as the chief executive of the State Rail Authority, serving until 1987. And he was appointed as a director of State Rail in 1997.
A former North Sydney rugby league junior, Hill was president of the North Sydney Bears Rugby League Football Club between 1989 and 1992.
He was instrumental in the eventual ban on cigarette sponsorship of the game. Hill is strongly in favour of the return of the Elgin Marbles to Greece.
Hill was an unsuccessful political candidate representing Labor for the Division of Hughes at the 1998 federal election.
Public Transport Commission 1979. Senate, University of Sydney 1983.
Married Emily Booker in 1985.