Preceded by Mark Butler Parents Alan Hunt Name Greg Hunt | Nationality Australian Preceded by Peter Reith | |
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Prime Minister Tony Abbott
Malcolm Turnbull Born 18 November 1965 (age 58)
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia ( 1965-11-18 ) Political party Liberal Party of Australia Alma mater University of Melbourne (BA, LLB)
Yale University (MA) Role Member of the Australian House of Representatives Office Member of the Australian Parliament since 2001 Party Liberal Party of Australia Education Yale University, University of Melbourne Similar People Alan Hunt, Lisa Neville, Anthony Albanese Profiles | ||
Bob irwin sees greg hunt mp sworn in as environment minister september 19 2013
Gregory Andrew Hunt (born 18 November 1965) is an Australian politician who has been a Liberal member of the House of Representatives since November 2001, representing the Division of Flinders in Victoria. He served as the Minister for the Environment from September 2013 to July 2016, serving first in the Abbott Government and then in the Turnbull Government. Hunt has served as the Minister for Health and the Minister for Sport since 24 January 2017.
Contents
- Bob irwin sees greg hunt mp sworn in as environment minister september 19 2013
- How greg hunt and the liberal party are destroying the environment
- Background and early career
- Political career
- Personal life
- References
How greg hunt and the liberal party are destroying the environment
Background and early career
Hunt was born in Melbourne and attended the Peninsula School. He went on to Melbourne Law School, where he won a prize for a final-year thesis he co-authored, titled A Tax to Make the Polluter Pay. Hunt was an associate to the Chief Justice of the Australian Federal Court in 1992, and subsequently attended Yale University as a Fulbright Scholar, where he obtained a Master of Arts in International Relations.
Beginning in 1994, Hunt served as a senior adviser to Alexander Downer, during both his periods as Leader of the Opposition (1994 to 1995) and Minister for Foreign Affairs (1995 to 1998). He then worked for McKinsey & Company from 1999 to 2001, and was also Director of Strategy at the World Economic Forum in Geneva from 2000 to 2001.
Political career
A member of the Liberal Party since 1994, Hunt was first elected to parliament at the 2001 federal election, replacing the retiring Peter Reith in the Division of Flinders. He was first elevated to the ministry following the 2004 federal election, when he was appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for the Environment and Heritage. In January 2007, Hunt was appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Foreign Affairs. Following the Coalition's defeat at the 2007 election, he was appointed Shadow Minister for Climate Change, Environment and Urban Water. His title was altered to Shadow Minister for Climate Change, Environment and Heritage after the 2010 election.
After the 2013 federal election, Hunt was appointed Minister for the Environment in the Abbott Government. One of his first actions as minister was to inform Tim Flannery, the head of the Gillard government's Climate Commission, that the government was closing this body, as per its election platform. In December 2013, he announced a project to dredge Abbot Point, which was approved by the Marine Park Authority in January 2014. Following the change in Liberal Party leadership in September 2015, Hunt was retained as Minister for the Environment in the new Turnbull Government.
In February 2016, Hunt was named "Best Minister in the World" by a panel established by Thomson Reuters for the 2016 World Government Summit of Dubai.
With the reelection of the Turnbull Government in 2016, Hunt became the Minister for Industry, Innovation and Science in the Second Turnbull Ministry.
Following the resignation of Sussan Ley as Health Minister, Turnbull appointed Hunt as the Minister for Health and the Minister for Sport.
In June 2017 Hunt, Michael Sukkar and Alan Tudge faced the possibility of being prosecuted for contempt of court after they made public statements criticising the sentencing decisions of two senior judges while the government was awaiting their ruling on a related appeal. They avoided prosecution by, eventually, making an unconditional apology to the Victorian Court of Appeal. Conviction could have resulted in their expulsion from the parliament under Constitution s 44(ii) and, as a result, the government losing its one-seat majority in the House of Representatives.
Personal life
Hunt is married and has a daughter and a son. His father, Alan Hunt, was a member of the Victorian Legislative Council between 1961 and 1992.