David Flint

David Flint is the National Convenor of Australians for Constitutional Monarchy and author of Twilight of The Elites. 

David Edward Flint AM (born 1938) is an Australian legal academic, known for his leadership of Australians for Constitutional Monarchy and for his tenure as head of the Australian Broadcasting Authority.

Admitted as a lawyer in New South Wales and England and Wales, he practised for a number of years, lecturing in several university business and law schools. That included a wide range of subjects including business, tax, antitrust, comparative, constitutional and international law.

He has written widely in various journals, and in the press in English and very occasionally in French, on topics such as the media, international economic law, European Union law, Australia’s constitution, Australia’s 1999 constitutional referendum and on direct democracy. His views are often sought by the Australian and international media.

In 1975, he joined the Australian Labor Party in indignation over the dismissal of then Prime Minister Gough Whitlam.^[2] He was asked to act as head of the University of Technology Sydney Faculty of Business for one year in 1977.