Noel Brunning is an Australian television presenter, currently working as the main anchor of Golden West News on GWN

Golden West Network

GWN7 is an Australian television network owned by the Prime Media Group that is based in Bunbury, Western Australia. The Golden West Network launched on 10 March 1967 as BTW-3 in Bunbury, and has since expanded to cover regional and remote Western Australia, servicing all areas except metropolitan...

 in regional Western Australia

Western Australia

Western Australia is a state of Australia, occupying the entire western third of the Australian continent. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Great Australian Bight and Indian Ocean to the south, the Northern Territory to the north-east and South Australia to the south-east...

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Brunning originally presented the nightly regional news for WA until 2007 when he left the station on long service leave to stand as a conservative independent candidate for the Forrest

Division of Forrest

The Division of Forrest is an Australian Electoral Division in Western Australia. The division was created in 1922 and is named for Sir John Forrest, the first Premier of Western Australia and a federal Cabinet minister. It is located in the south-western corner of the state, including the towns of...

constituency in the Federal Election.

His candidacy was unsuccessful and Brunning returned to GWN shortly after the election to resume his role as main anchor of Golden West News.

During his election campaign, there was a local propaganda movement involving t-shirts depicting Brunning's face, and various humorous slogans.