David Hunt
Biography
Publications
David Hunt is the author of Girt: The Unauthorised History of Australia, winner of the 2014 Indie Award for Non-Fiction Book of the Year. The sequel, True Girt, was shortlisted for Audiobook of the Year at the 2017 Australian Book Industry Awards and for the 2017 Russell Prize for Humour Writing. David was a speaker at TEDxSydney 2017. He presented the ABC Radio Australian history podcast Rum, Rebels and Ratbags and is presenting an Australian history documentary series on Foxtel's History Channel this year.
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