The son of a Queensland pineapple farmer who walked barefoot to school, Eric Hunter went on to become a groundbreaking journalist in Australia.

He was the Canberra correspondent when Australia's nightly television current affairs program, This Day Tonight , premiered in 1967.

Just a couple of months later, Mr Hunter became the first person Australians saw on their television reporting in real time from overseas. He broadcast from Expo 67 in Montreal, Canada, on June 6, 1967, for the special event, introducing what was the first direct satellite transmission from the northern to southern hemisphere.

A resident of Canberra for 45 years, raising three daughters in Cook with his wife Jennifer, Mr Hunter died last Sunday, October 19, aged 90. His daughter Catherine said Mr Hunter had b

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