About Henry Lloyd Davis
My father was a shearer and my mother was a roustabout. They travelled around Australia and New Zealand shearing before deciding on a change of climate. For a number of years, they travelled between Austria and Perisher Valley in N.S.W. running ski lodges and instructing at the ski schools.
They settled down in Canberra and worked as public servants in the old and new Parliament House as security guards. My mother Gail Davis grew up in Queensland in a small town called Quilpie and my father Robert Davis immigrated from Canada at the age of two.
Growing Up
I attended the oldest school in Canberra called the Lycée Franco-Australien de Canberra or Telopia Park School. The school offers a bilingual program in French and English from Kindergarten to year 12. Cynically I suspect my parents enrolled me there so they didn't need to help me with my homework, but I am now fortunate to be bilingual in both French and English.
When I left school having completed the International Baccalaureate, I joined the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) at the age of 18 as an Airborne Electronics Analyst on the AP3C Orion which saw me move to Adelaide based out of RAAF Base Edinburgh. I was trained in Radar and Electronic Warfare and completed Combat Survival Course for aircrew.
I am the Principal of Henry Lloyd Davis a specialist tax law firm in Adelaide.
I completed a double degree in Law/ Arts majoring in Economics and Philosophy at the University of Adelaide in mid 2016. I completed my Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice in Canberra late 2016 and was admitted by Gary Humphries.
I served in the Air Force working at RAAF Base Edinburgh and I completed a masters of tax law at the University of Melbourne just this year.
Recent Years
What Inspired Me
When I was younger, I used to catch the bus to school in the mornings with my mother. She would get off a few stops before me and I would continue down the road to the French International School Telopea.
Every now and again, I would occasionally take ill on the way to school in which case I would get to spend the day at Parliament House where my mother worked for the Black Rod.
Now some might claim that there was a correlation between those sick days and the day of our weekly French spelling test, which my teachers seemed to notice, but I would put that down to a mere coincidence.
Those days, I thought, were rudely interrupted by the loud bells which called the house to order and I would go to see what all the fuss was about. In the Chamber I saw the process that shaped Australia as I know it.
At the time, I truly thought Senate Estimates to be the dullest thing I have ever endured but it left me with the aspiration that someday I would make a positive contribution to Australia and her people.
Why I Serve
I am running for council because I want to ensure four things.
One, to preserve the parklands. Every year we lose on average 4,500m2 of land. It is this wasteful trend that I plan to stop.
Two, to clean up the city. The CBD has become very dirty with gum and rubbish being left all over. As a Councillor, I plan to re-establish this city's beauty.
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Three, I want to make sure that the council rates stay at the 0.1149 in the dollar by having the rates fixed at the Local Government Price Index.
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Four, I will push for better lighting and a greater police presence in the CBD as people forget that it is a suburban area as much it is a business area.
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With these initiatives, I hope to make the City of Adelaide a better, more beautiful and more functioning centre of the greatest Australian city.
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