Alan John Hunt AM (9 October 1927 – 19 July 2013)[1] was an Australian politician, having been a member of the Victorian Legislative Council from 1961 until 1992.
[1] After obtaining a law degree he practised as a solicitor until entering the Legislative Council in 1961, representing the Liberal Party.
[3] 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.
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 (Primary, Secondary and Technical) and to remove the statutory bodies (The Committee of Classifiers and the Teachers' Tribunal.