He had previously migrated to Australia from England in 1967 and operated a new-car dealership in outer Sydney.
He was educated at Peter Symonds College, a private school in Winchester, before becoming a clerk at Barclays and Lombards banks.
[1] Tony Packard Holden was a successful and profitable business that used the advertising catch phrase "just up the Windsor Road from Baulkham Hills, and let me do it right for you!
[1] Tony Packard appeared in “Whicker's World - Living with Waltzing Matilda” Episode 7.
[3] While an MP, Packard was charged over earlier use of concealed listening devices in his car dealership and forced to resign from Parliament in 1993.