Early Life and Career
Hood was born to working class parents in Salisbury, Adelaide, South Australia; his father a Vietnam War veteran and his mother legally blind. He holds a Bachelors Degree in Arts (Politics) and Economics from the University of Adelaide, and subsequently became an executive for Johnson & Johnson's pharmeceuticals.
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