GOVERNANCE

Business Hunter exists to support and speak for business in the Hunter region. We advocate to government at all levels for business-positive policies that promote investment and growth to deliver flow-on benefits to all in our community.

Organisational STructure

We are an independent, member-funded, not-for-profit organisation affiliated through a Deed of Agreement with Business NSW and its commercial arm, Business Australia.

Business Hunter is overseen by a Board of Directors drawn from our membership, including one representative of the Business NSW board and one director representing our local chamber alliance partners.  Board elections are undertaken every two years. Businesses must be financial members of Hunter First or Business Hunter to be eligible to vote or stand a candidate for election to the board. 

Formerly the Hunter Business Chamber, we adopted the name Business Hunter in 2020.

Our constitution

Download our Constitution

Annual reports

Download the Annual Report 2020

Download the Annual Report 2019

Download the Annual Report 2018

Download the Annual Report 2017

Download the Annual Report 2016

Life Members

Kyle Loades
David Le Marchant
Peter Evans OAM
Peter Rundle
Paul Murphy OAM
Neville Sawyer AM
Ian Pedersen
Richard Anicich AM

PAST PRESIDENTS

Business Hunter traces its beginnings back to the establishment of the Newcastle Chamber of Commerce and Industry in 1886.  The organisation was later known as the Newcastle Hunter Business Chamber and partnered with the Chamber of Manufactures in the late 1990s to become the Hunter Business Chamber. We became Business Hunter in 2021.