Career
Early journalism Lunn served his journalism cadetship with The Courier-Mail. Upon completing his cadetship, he worked overseas for seven years. During 1967 and 1968 he covered the Vietnam War for Reuters.
In 1969 Lunn reported on the Acting of Free Choice in West Papua while Reuters Correspondent in Indonesia.
On returning to Australia he became Queensland editor of The Australian. Over the course of the next two decades Lunn was in turn sacked and re-employed by Rupert Murdoch"s newspaper a number of times.
Finding himself without employment at the age of 47, he began to pen a memoir about his childhood. Author Joh: The Life and Political Adventures of Johannes Bjeke-Petersen 1978 Behind the Banana Curtain 1980 Four Stories: About Aboriginal Australians in Queensland 1982 "Queenslanders" VIETNAM A Reporter"s War 1985 Over The Top With Jim 1989 More Over The Top With Jim Stories 1992 The Over The Top With Jim Album 1995 Head Over Heels, University of Queensland Press 1992 Fred and Olive"s Blessed Lino, University of Queensland Press 1993 Spies Like Us, University of Queensland Press 1995 Working for Rupert Hodder Headline 2001 On the Road to Anywhere HH 2003 Lost for Words, American Broadcasting Company Books 2006 The Great Fletch, American Broadcasting Company Books 2008 "Words Fail Maine", American Broadcasting Company Books, 2010.
