Graeme Hunt

Graeme Hunt

Graeme John Hunt
Born Graeme John Hunt
20 September 1952
Auckland, New Zealand
Died 22 September 2010(2010-09-22) (aged 58)
Auckland, New Zealand

Graeme John Hunt (20 September 1952 – 22 September 2010) was a New Zealand journalist, author and historian.

Biography

Hunt was born in Auckland, New Zealand. He was the third of the five children, of Frederick Phillip Hunt (1921–1982), a self-employed wireworker, and Beverley Nance Hunt (née Hatcher) (1926–2002), an accounts clerk. He attended Penrose High School (now One Tree Hill College) in Auckland.

Hunt, who initially trained as an accountant, was a journalist, author and historian. He held a history degree and a business studies diploma from Massey University in Palmerston North,[1] and attended Green College (now Green Templeton College), University of Oxford, England, in 2000 as a Chevening/David Low journalism fellow under the Reuters Foundation Programme.

Hunt was a former editor-at-large of the National Business Review, Auckland, and a former editor of that paper's annual Rich List. He was also a radio and television commentator on business and politics and wrote for a number of New Zealand publications including the New Zealand Listener, Management magazine, the New Zealand Herald, the Herald on Sunday and Metro.[2]

Interests

Hunt was deputy chairman of One Tree Hill College Board of Trustees, Auckland (his old school),[3] and was formerly deputy chairman of Kelston Girls’ College Board of Trustees, Auckland. He also served on the (New Zealand) Young Enterprise Trust Supporters’ Council and undertook the research into, and helped select, laureates for the Fairfax Media New Zealand Business Hall of Fame.

He was a keen genealogist and published two books on his family history.

Hunt was a critic of New Zealand's mixed-member proportional (MMP) voting system and campaigned for its abolition.[4]

Politics

On 19 April 2010 Hunt announced he would be standing on the North Now ticket for the new Auckland Council.[5] He died at his residence in Auckland before the elections were completed.<ref ">"NZPA (23 September 2010). "Journalist Graeme Hunt dies". The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 24 September 2010. </ref>

Personal details

Hunt was married to Saluma (née Ioane), a human resources manager, originally from Niue. He fathered two children, a son and daughter, from a previous marriage.

Works

Hunt's works included:[6][7]

Hunt wrote or edited several other books, including school and business histories.

References

  1. ↑ Hunt, Graeme (2005; updated 2006). Peka Totara: Penrose High School Golden Jubilee 1955–2005, p. 36-37.
  2. ↑ For example, Hunt, Graeme, (31 August 2007). "Sir James Fletcher, the mild-mannered man of steel", New Zealand Herald, Auckland (obituary of James Muir Cameron Fletcher.)
  3. ↑ "Board of Trustees". One Tree Hill College.
  4. ↑ "Poll shows public split over MMP and FPP". NZPA. 14 July 2009.
  5. ↑ Orsman, Bernard (20 April 2010). "Banks says he'd give Fletcher a top job". New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 20 April 2010.
  6. ↑ "Hunt, Graeme". New Zealand Book Council.
  7. ↑ "Graeme Hunt". Professional Historians' Association of New Zealand Aotearoa.
  8. ↑ Eriksen, Alanah May, (24 November 2009). "St John book celebrates 125 years of first aid for Kiwis". New Zealand Herald. Also East & Bays Courier, Auckland, 20 November 2009. Also the Press, Christchurch, 26 December 2009. Also Otago Daily Times, Dunedin, 31 October 2009.

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