Greg Hunt Essay

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The man’s brown eyes are focused and determined as he surveys the crowd standing before him. His throat is drier than the Great Victoria Desert; his body, tense with anticipation before he utters his first word. He takes a deep breath, blows it out, and begins his speech. He concentrates on his delivery like a dedicated gymnast on their routine and tunes out the noise of the audience in the background; the muffled hum of the crowd sounds like the buzzing of a far-away bumblebee. He has trained for years, and now, is relentless in his pursuit to achieve passage for his legislation—and/or to remain a Member of Parliament. His name is Greg Hunt, and he is considered to be one of the more notable officials throughout Australian politics. He has …show more content…
The passion for political involvement must have burned at a young age for Hunt given that he happened to be the son of a very prominent Australian politician at the time. His father, Alan Hunt, served West Gippsland and the Mornington Peninsula for over 30 years—on the Victorian Legislative Council—as the state upper house member for the South-Eastern province. One of his most significant achievements came in 19__ when he secured the protection of the “natural environment” in Melbourne’s surrounding growth suburbs—more commonly known as the “green wedges.” Each of these aspects must have had quite the impact on Greg in his earlier years, as illustrated by the choices and characteristics he ultimately came to demonstrate. Not only did he express a relentless passion for political involvement at such a young age, but he also chose to specialize his focus in the same area as his father’s most notable accomplishment—the …show more content…
As a result, Labor decided to use the environment for their political gain, prior to taking office in the 2007 election. This not only led to Australia’s ratification of the Kyoto Protocol (as part of Prime Minister Paul Rudd’s election promise), but more importantly, signaled the beginning of an ensuing catastrophe our man of the hour, Greg Hunt, would eventually be relied upon to solve. The policy he would ultimately come to devise encompassed an entirely different position that that of his Labor counterpart, and essentially sought to correct many of the flaws uncovered during its (rather strenuous)

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