Personal Life
He attended Westminster School in Adelaide, South Australia. He has a son named Cane and a daughter named Katie.
Holden finished a law degree in 1999 and read with Barrister William Lye at the Victorian Bar. In November 2009 he signed the Victorian Bar roll and is now practising as a full time barrister.
He has suffered six bone fractures as a direct result of Osteoporosis, and featured on an awareness ad on Channel 7.
While interviewing Dick Smith on ABC Local Radio on 12 January 2012 Mr Holden revealed that he decided to leave his long-time American home and return to Australia because of the inequities of life in the US. The tipping point for coming to this decision was reached when he witnessed a middle aged, middle class woman living in her station wagon, having lost her identity documents and having no access to any social service payments.
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