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Hickey was born in a working class suburb of Sydney, where he attended De Louisiana Salle College.
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He reportedly left school at the age of 14 to work in a factory, later making a fortune by founding Accident Insurance, which became Australia"s largest privately owned insurer. Their home was a Bartinon mansion standing on 2325sqm of land, once Queensland"s most expensive home, located on Marseille Court in the exclusive Sorrento area of Australia"s Gold Coast. lieutenant was built for about $8 million in the 1980s and sold in 1998.
Hickey, a sailor and raconteur who staunchly supported the Australian National Party, told an American Broadcasting Company Four Corners program in 1982 that he was knighted after giving $100,000 towards the construction of a senior citizens" hospice in Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen"s electorate.
Hickey replied to a question regarding the confluence of the contribution and the knighthood by saying "I paid the hundred thousand before I received the knighthood."
His father Simon Hickey was a New South Wales Labor politician whose 8-day term as the Speaker of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly in December 1921 is the shortest in the history of that chamber.
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National Party