David Hill (businessman)
| David Hill | |
|---|---|
| Born |
20 June 1946 Eastbourne, East Sussex, England, United Kingdom |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Occupation | Business leader; author |
| Home town | Sydney, New South Wales |
| Political party | Australian Labor Party |
| Spouse(s) | Stergitsa Zamagias-Hill |
| Children | Damian Hill |
David Hill (born 20 June 1946) is an English-born Australian business leader and author.
Born illegitimately in Eastbourne, East Sussex in 1946, into an impoverished family of four boys, Hill and his twin brother spent time in Barnardo's children's home in Barkingside in Essex.
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. It 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. He migrated to Australia together with his elder brother and twin brother, and departed from Tilbury Docks, London in April 1959 aboard the SS Strathaird. His mother arrived in Australia a few years later. Prior to departing England, Hill and his brothers had enrolled to attend Fairbridge Farm School in Molong, near Orange in the Central West region of New South Wales. Hill has since written a book about the experiences of the pupils there. The documentary The Long Journey Home was aired on ABC TV 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, pub 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.
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