Hugh Lunn

Last updated

Hugh Duncan Lunn (born 1941 in Brisbane, Queensland) is an Australian journalist and author.

Contents

Writing career

Early journalism

Lunn served his journalism cadetship with The Courier-Mail . Upon completing his cadetship, he worked overseas for seven years. During 1967 and 1968 he covered the Vietnam War for Reuters. [1] [2] In 1969 Lunn reported on the Act of Free Choice in West Papua while as Reuters correspondent in Indonesia. [3] [4]

On returning to Australia he became Queensland editor of The Australian . Over the course of the next two decades Lunn was in turn sacked and re-employed by Rupert Murdoch's newspaper a number of times. Finding himself without employment at the age of 47, he began to pen a memoir about his childhood.

Author

Lunn is now famous in Queensland for a number of autobiographical books: in June 2009 he was voted a Queensland Icon as one of 15 "influential artists" in the state's history in a list of 15 which included the Bee Gees, Geoffrey Rush, Powderfinger and David Malouf. The best known of his memoirs is Over The Top With Jim. Published in 1989, it became the biggest-selling non-fiction book in Australia for 1991. It tells the story of his Brisbane childhood and his friendship with Jim Egoroff and Ken Fletcher. After reading the book Egoroff is said to have visited Lunn and threatened to "punish you for your sins". [5]

In 1994, A sandstone carving by Brisbane artist Dr. Rhyl Hinwood was erected on the University of Queensland campus to celebrate the publication by UQP of several of Lunn's national bestsellers.

In 2015, Lunn was inducted as a Fellow of the Queensland Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Lunn is famous for coining the phrase "there is no such thing as an ex-Queenslander", which he first used when in November 1979 when discussing with Senator Ron McAuliffe, President of the QRL, on a 90-minute plane trip from Brisbane to Canberra, the viability of a State of Origin series.

In 2019, three off-Broadway performances of The State of Origin Musical! - written by Hugh Lunn with comedian and composer Gerry Connolly - were performed at The Princess Theatre in Annerley Road, Wooloongabba, a stage on which Hugh had debuted as a tap-dancer, 70-something years earlier.

Awards

Publishing record

Related Research Articles

Joh Bjelke-Petersen Australian politician

Sir Johannes Bjelke-Petersen was an Australian conservative politician. He was the longest-serving and longest-lived Premier of Queensland, holding office from 1968 to 1987, during which time the state underwent considerable economic development. He has become one of the most well-known and controversial figures of 20th-century Australian politics because of his uncompromising conservatism, political longevity, and the institutional corruption that became synonymous with his later leadership.

HMAS <i>Brisbane</i> (D 41) Perth-class guided missile destroyer of the Royal Australian Navy sunk as a dive site off the Queensland coast

HMAS Brisbane was one of three Perth-class guided missile destroyers to serve in the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). The United States-designed ship was laid down at Bay City, Michigan in 1965, launched in 1966 and commissioned into the RAN in 1967. She is named after the city of Brisbane, Queensland.

Allan Langer Australia international rugby league footballer

Allan Jeffrey "Alfie" Langer AM is an Australian former multi-award-winning rugby league footballer who played in the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s and worked as an assistant coach for the Australian national team and the Brisbane Broncos.

Bobbi Sykes

Roberta "Bobbi" Sykes was an Australian poet and author. She was a lifelong campaigner for indigenous land rights, as well as human rights and women's rights.

State of Origin series Annual Australian rugby league series

The State of Origin series is an annual best-of-three rugby league series between two Australian state representative sides, the New South Wales Blues and the Queensland Maroons.

Robert Duncan Drewe is an Australian novelist, non-fiction and short story writer.

Ken Fletcher Australian tennis player

Kenneth Norman Fletcher was an Australian tennis player who won numerous doubles and mixed doubles Grand Slam titles.

Barry Muir is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer and coach. An Australian and Queensland representative halfback, he played in twenty-two Tests between 1959 and 1964, as captain on two occasions.

Steven Herrick is an Australian poet and author. Herrick has published twenty-four books for adults, young adults and children. He is widely regarded as a pioneer of verse-novels for children and young adults.

Sallyanne Atkinson Australian politician

Sallyanne Atkinson AO was Lord Mayor of Brisbane from 1985 to 1991 in Queensland, Australia. She is the only woman to have held the position. As of 2017, she was Chairman of the Museum of Brisbane, President of the Council of The Women's College at the University of Queensland and Chair of the Advisory Board of the Queensland Brain Institute at the University of Queensland.

Greg Conescu is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer. An Australia national and Queensland State of Origin representative hooker, he played all of his club football in Queensland with Norths Devils Gladstone Brothers, Redcliffe and the Brisbane Broncos.

Ross Andrew Fitzgerald is an Australian academic, historian, novelist, secularist, and political commentator. Fitzgerald is an Emeritus Professor in History and Politics at Griffith University. He has published forty-two books, including three histories of Queensland, two biographies, works about Labor Party politics of the 1950s, with other books relating to philosophy, alcohol and Australian Rules football, as well as eight works of fiction, including seven political/sexual satires about his corpulent anti-hero Professor Dr Grafton Everest.

The 1980 State of Origin game was the first game between the Queensland Maroons and the New South Wales Blues rugby league teams to be played under "state of origin" selection rules. It was the third match of 1980's annual interstate series between the Blues and the Maroons, and was only allowed to go ahead because the first two matches were already won by New South Wales. It was played on 8 July 1980 under the newly configured rules by which a player would represent his "state of origin", i.e. the state in which he was born or in which he started playing registered first grade rugby league football.

Lisa Millar is an Australian television news presenter and journalist.

Jagera people Australian Aboriginal people of the Moreton Bay to Toowoomba areas of Queensland

The Jagera people, also written Yagarr, Yaggera, Yuggara, Yuggera, Chepara-Yuggara, Chepara-Yugara, Ugarapul, Yugarabul, Yuggarapul, and Yugarapul are the Australian Aboriginal people who spoke the Yuggera language. The Yuggera language which encompassed a number of dialects was spoken by the traditional owners of the territories from Moreton Bay to the base of the Toowoomba ranges including the city of Brisbane and Ipswich. The groups who spoke dialects of the Yuggera language that lived in the region include the Turrbal People, Jagera People, Yugara People, Yuggera Ugarapul People, Jagera Yagera Gurrangnam.

Gary Scully (1933–2011) was a Walkley award-winning Australian journalist and foreign correspondent.

Hedley Thomas

Hedley Thomas is an Australian investigative journalist and author, who has won seven Walkley awards, two of which are Gold Walkleys. He is best known for his work on the podcast series The Teacher's Pet investigating the disappearance of Lynette Dawson.

Paul Edward McLean, MBE is an Australian former rugby union player and administrator and is a senior executive in the real estate business. He played rugby for Queensland and Australia in the 1970s and 1980s, is a former president of the Australian Rugby Union, and an inductee into the Australian Rugby Union Hall of Fame. From 2009 to 2015 he was Chief Executive Officer for Savills, overseeing the Australasian operations of the multinational real estate services provider.

Keen as Mustard is a documentary film researched and directed by Bridget Goodwin detailing secret experiments conducted during World War II on Australian servicemen volunteers to investigate the effects of, and precautions against, mustard gas when used as a weapon in the tropics. The film, released by Film Australia in 1989, contains extensive historic documentary footage and accounts by several participants, and was made possible by the release of previously highly restricted documents. A book of the same name, containing much additional material, was published in 1998.

Sean Christopher Dorney AO MBE CSM FAIIA is an Australian journalist, foreign correspondent, and writer with an extensive career covering the Pacific with a particular focus on Papua New Guinea. He was the Pacific and PNG Correspondent of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation on and off from 1975 to 2014.

References

  1. ↑ Griffin, Sgt Damian (4 October 2007). "OFF THE SHELF – The right reading". Navy News. Department of Defence. 50 (18).
  2. ↑ Pringle, James (22 January 2004). "MEANWHILE : Year of the Monkey marks a turning point in Vietnam". New York Times. Archived from the original on 30 January 2011. Retrieved 25 February 2010.
  3. ↑ Saltford, John (2003). "May to July 1969". The United Nations and the Indonesian takeover of West Papua, 1962–1969: the anatomy of betrayal. Routledge. pp. 225–226. ISBN   0-7007-1751-X.
  4. ↑ "Independence for West Papua". An Phoblacht. 16 December 1999. Retrieved 25 February 2010.
  5. ↑ "News". Hugh Lunn Official Website. Archived from the original on 14 October 2009. Retrieved 25 February 2010.
  6. ↑ Bligh, Anna (10 June 2009). "PREMIER UNVEILS QUEENSLAND'S 150 ICONS". Queensland Government. Archived from the original on 24 May 2017. Retrieved 24 May 2017.
  7. ↑ The Australian Media Hall Of Fame - Hugh Lunn
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.