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Hugh Lunn was born on 1941 in Australia, is an Australian journalist and author (born 1941). Discover Hugh Lunn's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 83 years old?
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Hugh Lunn Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Hugh Lunn worth at the age of 83 years old? Hugh Lunn’s income source is mostly from being a successful journalist. He is from Australia. We have estimated Hugh Lunn's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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Hugh Duncan Lunn (born 1941 in Brisbane, Queensland) is an Australian journalist and author.
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.
In 1969 Lunn reported on the Act of Free Choice in West Papua while as Reuters correspondent in Indonesia.
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
Finding himself without employment at the age of 47, he began to pen a memoir about his childhood.
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.
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".
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.
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.
In 2015, Lunn was inducted as a Fellow of the Queensland Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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.