David Flint

David 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.

David Flint was born in 1938 and grew up in the Sydney suburb of Waverley. His mother was Indonesian of predominantly European ancestry and spoke Dutch. She enjoyed music and dancing, and David took her out dancing every week until she died at age 90. This was always disapproved of by his father, a public servant, champion amateur boxer, and member of a puritanical religious organisation. He studied at Sydney Boys High School before studying law, economics and international relations at the Universities of London, Paris, and Sydney, leading to a career in the law and academia. Flint states that he was "a socialist in his student days".

Admitted as a lawyer in New South Wales and England, he practised for a number of years, lecturing in several university business and law schools. This 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. He was asked to act as head of the University of Technology Sydney Faculty of Business for one year in 1977.

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