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In his younger years, Parry had been a noted Australian baseball player.^[3]^[3] He later established the Perth Heat baseball team as well as funding the first purpose-built baseball stadium in Perth, Parry Field at Belmont.^[4]

Parry headed the diversified Parry Corporation group (formerly Parry's Esplanade Limited and before that Parry's Department Stores), which included the Perth-based Parry's department stores which he developed from his father's backyard furniture workshop.^[5] In 1986, Parry Corporation was ranked 96 in a listing of the top 100 Australian non-financial firms.^[6] The West Perth Scitech centre was supported by Parry until financial difficulties ended his involvement.^[7]

Parry was associated with other high-flying Perth entrepreneurs in funding the Australian Labor Party through a structure named the John Curtin Foundation, formed in October 1984 to harvest corporate funding for and facilitate political patronage of the federal Hawke government and the notorious WA Inc state government of Brian Burke.^[8] Parry Corporation suffered considerable financial difficulties after the 1987 Stock Market Crash and in late 1987, Parry lost control of the company.^[7] He later headed a small Perth-based homeopathic company Astop Biohealth with his son, Cameron.^[9]

Parry was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia in 1988.^[10] This award was rescinded in 1996 after he was charged with stealing $75,000 from the Western Australian State Superannuation Board^[11]

On 26 November 2010, Parry died in a car accident near his home in Bullsbrook.^[12]

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1. ^Fremantle - Wednesday, 4 February 1987, the revenge of the United States
2. ^{{cite book|title=The America's Cup 1851-1987 : Sailing For Supremacy|author=Gary Lester and Richard Sleeman|publisher=Lester-Townsend Publishing Pty Ltd, Sydney|year=1986|isbn=0-949853-08-9}}
3. ^[https://books.google.com/books?id=rIXGQra02mAC&pg=PA83&lpg=PA83&dq=kevin+parry+baseball&source=web&ots=5klQjLBSu2&sig=TQuiHT3S-WTOhjyB-GniFopEyro#PPP1,M1 A History of Australian Baseball: Time and Game] via Google.com; accessed 13 September 2016.
4. ^[https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DE3DA133FF935A35751C0A961948260 Baseball Fever on the Rise in Australia]
5. ^¹{{cite web|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DE3D6153AF936A35752C0A961948260|title= Fighting For A Lead Position|work=New York Times|author=Nicholas D. Kristof|date=5 January 1987|accessdate=2008-02-28}}
6. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.cambridge.edu.au/downloads/Appendix_C.pdf |title=Top 100 non-financial companies ranked by assets, 1910–1997 |work=Cambridge University Press |accessdate=2008-02-29 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060319102415/http://www.cambridge.edu.au/downloads/Appendix_C.pdf |archivedate=19 March 2006 }}
7. ^¹{{cite web|url=http://www.gdc.asn.au/aboutus_overview_jl.php |title=The Western Australian Science Discovery Centrework=Gravity Discovery Centre |accessdate=2008-02-29 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071030092726/http://www.gdc.asn.au/aboutus_overview_jl.php |archivedate=30 October 2007 |deadurl=yes |df= }}
8. ^Tony Barrass Business and Labor at the birth of WA Inc The Weekend Australian, 8-9 August 2009, p. 4. (The article includes a photograph in which Parry is seated next to Bob Hawke.) Short-term URL
9. ^Bird flu inhibitor hope for Kevin Parry's Astop Biohealth, WABusinessNews.com.au; accessed 13 September 2016.{{paywall}}
10. ^[https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1301&dat=19880126&id=SYFWAAAAIBAJ&sjid=xuQDAAAAIBAJ&pg=1684,8459333 "Parry appointed Officer of the Order of Australia"], Sydney Morning Herald, 26 January 1988; retrieved 20 March 2014.
11. ^[https://www.crikey.com.au/2006/01/16/the-22-australians-stripped-of-their-orders-of-australia/3 The 22 Australians stripped of their Orders of Australia]", Crikey, 16 January 2006; retrieved 8 January 2018.
12. ^Perth businessman Kevin Parry dies in car crash, watoday.com.au; accessed 13 September 2016.

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