[1][2] In 1969 Lunn reported on the Act of Free Choice in West Papua while as Reuters correspondent in Indonesia.
Over the course of the next two decades Lunn was in turn sacked and re-employed by Rupert Murdoch's newspaper a number of times.
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.
[5] 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.
[citation needed] 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.