Greg Hunt

Greg Hunt graduated from Melbourne University with First Class Honours in Law, and subsequently won a Fulbright Scholarship to complete a Masters of International Relations at Yale University.

After university, Mr Hunt worked with Mallesons Stephen Jacques before becoming Associate to the Chief Justice of the Federal Court. Between 1994 and 1998, he was senior adviser to then opposition Leader and Minister for Foreign Affairs, Alexander Downer. He subsequently headed Australia's electoral mission to Cambodia in 1998.

Mr Hunt was elected as the Federal Member for Flinders in 2001 and has completed four 500km walks around his electorate in 2004, 2007, 2011 and 2015 to raise funds for Juvenile Diabetes and Autism Spectrum Disorder. Mr Hunt was Minister for the Environment from September 2013 to July 2016 in the Abbott and Turnbull Government. He served as Minister for Health from January 2017 to August 2018 following criticism of the leadership of Malcolm Turnbull and an attempted leadership spill, and was re-appointed as Health Minister in the Morrison Government. In December 2020, he took on majority of the Aged Care portfolio.