death_date death_place children birth_place nationality party office profession birth_date term_start birthname article_title term_end name otherparty alma_mater
19 july 2013 frankston , victoria , australia bob hunt hunt greg hunt peter hunt john hunt steven peterborough , south australia australian liberal party member province of the victorian legislative council for south eastern solicitor 9 october 1927 15 july 1961 alan john hunt alan hunt -lrb- politician -rrb-
 2 october 1992 alan hunt liberal and country party university of melbourne
alan hunt -lrb- politician -rrb-

alan john hunt am -lrb- 9 october 1927 -- 19 july 2013 -rrb- was an australian politician , having been a member of the victorian legislative council from 1961 until 1992 .
hunt started his education in south australia and later attended melbourne grammar school .
he then went to the university of melbourne and was president of the melbourne university liberals from 1948 -- 50 and secretary of the then national union of australian university students .
after obtaining a law degree he practised as a solicitor until entering the legislative council in 1961 , representing the liberal party .
hunt was first appointed as a minister in 1971 , under the premiership of henry bolte .
he served in a variety of portfolios under the bolte , hamer and thompson governments , most notability as minister for local government , minister for planning and minister for education .
from 1979 to 1982 the hamer government initiated and implemented the most significant and far-reaching reorganisation of the victorian education department in the 20th century.and objectives of education in victoria '' ministerial statement by the hon a.j.hunt mlc minister of education in the legislative council and the hon norman lacy mp assistant minister of education in the legislative assembly on 12 december 1979 hunt as minister of education -lrb- 1979 -- 1982 -rrb- and norman lacy as assistant minister of education -lrb- 1979 -- 1980 -rrb- were jointly responsible for the reform policy development process and the early stages of its implementation .
together they made a formidable team in the pursuit of their mission to reform the administration of the centralised and inefficient department .
hunt appointed lacy chairman of the `` ministerial consultative committee '' that steered the project in its early phase and the `` implementation steering committee '' later .
he pulled together an impressive group of people from academia and business to assist him as well as pa management consultants .
the government legislated - at the end of 1981 - to scrap the teaching divisions -lrb- primary , secondary and technical -rrb- and to remove the statutory bodies -lrb- the committee of classifiers and the teachers ' tribunal -rrb- .
-lsb- https://archive.org/stream/educationamendmentbill-2ndreadingspeech/educationamendmentbill#page/n0/mode/1up alan hunt also served as leader of the government in the legislative council from 1978 until the liberals lost government in 1982 .
he retired from politics in 1992 and is the father of current federal liberal parliamentarian greg hunt .
