Anthony Kennedy belongs to the Wiradjuri language group and spent the first eight years of his life living in Malabar, New South Wales. His primary and secondary education were spent in religious schools, as he would say 'Lewisham Christian Brothers High School was extremely regimented, like an army'. It was during those years he had begun learning more about Aboriginals.
Anthony has always had a love of art and painting and cites Renaissannce and Impressionism artists such as Van Gogh, Picasso, Modigliani, Monet and Thomas Moore as some of his most favourite.