Justice Robert Hunter oral history interview and photograph by Louise Darmody, 1 September 2016

fonds

1 September 2016

Nonmusical Sound Recordings, Oral Histories

1001588

1 audio file (3hrs., 1 min.) - digital, WAV
1 photograph - digital, JPEG, colour

Robert Leslie Hunter was born in 1930. He was educated at schools in Brisbane and Sydney and graduated from the University of Sydney in Arts/Law. He was admitted as a solicitor in 1955, and a barrister four years later. He was appointed Queen’s Counsel in 1974 and became a judge of the Supreme Court in 1994. He retired in 2002 and worked in professional consultancy until 2013. During this period he also bred horses on his property in the Liverpool Plains and became involved in campaigning against coal seam gas development. He was a member of the NSW Farmers Association mining task force and a member of the Ministerial Oversight Committee to set up a study for the potential impact of coal and coal seam gas development in the Namoi Catchment.

Reference:
Library correspondence file

Item 1: Justice Robert Hunter interviewed by Louise Darmody, 1 September 2016

Item 2: Photograph of Justice Robert Hunter, 1 September 2016 / by Louise Darmody

Acquired in digital format. Access copy available online.