That was always disapproved of by his father, a public servant, champion amateur boxer, and member of a puritanical religious organisation.
[citation needed] In 1975, he joined the Australian Labor Party in indignation over the dismissal of then Prime Minister Gough Whitlam.
At UTS in the 1980s, he was elected and re-elected president of the union staff association and was a delegate to the NSW Labor Council.
In 1990, he was appointed by the federal government as a member of the International Legal Services Council, a position he held for six years.
During his term as Dean, he introduced a full-time law degree and a series of joint programmes with other disciplines including computing and science.
The letter mentioned an international affairs seminar where Paul Kelly, a leading journalist with The Australian, had stressed the influence of Alan Jones' radio programme.
[citation needed] Flint insisted that his resignation was "not an admission of guilt",[2] and asserted that he had forgotten the letter, one of a large number which he had written.
[6] The television program Media Watch, whose pursuit of the story was recognised by a Walkley Award for investigative journalism, claimed that it had provided an opportunity for Flint to unambiguously deny the existence of more than one letter.
On 12 June 1995, was made a Member of the Order of Australia "in recognition of service to the print media, particularly as Chairman of the Australian Press Council and to international relations".
Flint has been National Convenor of Australians for Constitutional Monarchy since 1998, and a board member of the Samuel Griffith Society.
In 2017, Flint argued against[9] the Australian Marriage Law Postal Survey on the grounds that it was not a valid referendum, and suggested that people should vote no.