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Harold Davis was born the eldest of twelve children and attended Greenhill Primary School, an Aboriginal School just outside the Greenhill Mission. He then attended high school in Kempsey, moved to Redfern in the early 1970sand his first job was polishing trophies and working in a meat factory. An avid football player, Davis played First Grade football for many years including eight years representative for Campbelltown in the Aboriginal Knock-Out competition.

Davis and his wife Sue have lived in Campbelltown for more than twenty-eight years and together they have fostered and cared for many Koori children. Davis has held many jobs throughout his working life, including working in the building industry, as a licensed security guard and in 1999 as an Aboriginal Community Liaison Officer with the Campbelltown Police Services. More recently Davis has become part of a support team that assists the Aboriginal and Pacific communities toward developing peaceful relations and resolution of conflicts between the two cultures.