Hunter was the elected chairperson of the National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation, (NACCHO), which is the peak national advisory body on Aboriginal health.
He was a member of the Australian Pharmaceutical Advisory Council (APAC), the General Practice Partnership Advisory Council, the Joint Advisory Group on Population Health and the National Health Priority Areas Action Council as well as a number of other key Aboriginal health policy and advisory groups on national issues.
[1] Hunter had a long role in the struggle for justice for Aboriginal people.
He was born in Darwin in 1951, where his parents had fled Broome and Western Australian native welfare policies.
the fund was to help Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to succeed in health careers.