Roger Hunt

Roger Hunt is an Australian palliative care specialist based in Adelaide. He was educated at Flinders University, the Royal Australian College of Physicians and Adelaide University (Hunt, n.d.; Hunt, 2022), and was awarded an MD by published work, Epidemiology of Terminal Care in SA (Healthcare Professionals for Assisted Dying Choice, [n.d.]). 

Among other achievements, Hunt has published extensively on clinical and ethical aspects of palliative medicine. He was a member of both the Victorian Ministerial Advisory Panel and the Western Australian Ministerial Expert Panel that led to voluntary assisted dying (VAD) legislation in their respective states (Healthcare Professionals for Assisted Dying Choice, [n.d.]).

Hunt is supportive of voluntary euthanasia. At the Australian Palliative Care Conference 2017, Dr. Hunt joined a panel discussing voluntary assisted dying and its implications for palliative care. He was quoted as saying there has been a history of “fear-mongering” around the issue, and noted Aboriginal communities were warned of a “second Holocaust” when the Rights of the Terminally Ill Bill 1995 was approved in the Northern Territory (McInerney, 2017). 

Healthcare Professionals for Assisted Dying Choice. [n.d.] Roger Hunt. https://www.hpadchoice.org.au/dr_roger_hunt

Hunt, R. [n.d.]. Roger Hunt [LinkedIn page]. Retrieved September 2, 2022, from https://www.linkedin.com/in/roger-hunt-45ba15106/

Hunt, R. (2015, December 1). Response to “Assisted dying is not part of good medical practice”. Australian Medical Student Journal. https://www.amsj.org/archives/4478

Hunt, R. (2022). Roger Hunt [ORCID page). https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7726-6358

McInerney, M. (2017, September 17). Laying down the euthanasia challenge to the palliative care field: are you ready? Croakey Health Media. https://www.croakey.org/laying-down-the-euthanasia-challenge-to-the-palliative-care-field-are-you-ready/