| Tialavea Tionisio Hunt | |
| Office6: | Minister of Police |
| Primeminister6: | Tuilaepa Aiono Sailele Malielegaoi |
| Term Start6: | 26 March 2020 |
| Term End6: | 24 May 2021 |
| Predecessor6: | Tuilaepa Aiono Sailele Malielegaoi |
| Successor6: | Lefau Harry Schuster |
| Office7: | Minister of Prisons |
| Term Start7: | 30 June 2016 |
| Term End7: | 24 May 2021 |
| Predecessor7: | Sala Fata Pinati |
| Successor7: | Lefau Harry Schuster |
| Office8: | Minister of Customs & Revenue |
| Term Start8: | 18 March 2016 |
| Term End8: | 24 May 2021 |
| Predecessor8: | Tuiloma Pule Lameko |
| Successor8: | Tuala Iosefo Ponifasio |
| Constituency Mp10: | Vaa o Fonoti |
| Parliament10: | Samoan |
| Term Start10: | 4 March 2011 |
| Term End10: | 9 April 2021 |
| Predecessor10: | Tuitama Talalelei Tuitama |
| Successor10: | Alaiasa Sepulona Moananu |
| Party: | Human Rights Protection Party |
Tialavea Fea Leniu Tionisio Hunt is a Samoan politician and former Cabinet Minister. He is a member of the Human Rights Protection Party.
Hunt was educated at St. Peters school in Falefa, Marist Brothers Mulivai and St Josephs College, Lotopa.[1] he worked in printing and construction before becoming a member of the board of the Samoa Shipping Corporation and the Development Bank of Samoa.[1] He was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of Samoa at the 2011 Samoan general election, and appointed Associate Minister of Finance and Associate Minister of Police and Prisons.[1]
Following the 2016 election Hunt was appointed as Minister of Revenue.[2] A cabinet reshuffle in June 2016 saw him gain the prisons and corrections portfolio.[3] In June 2017 he was responsible for a controversial policy to tax church ministers.[4] When churches refused to pay, he threatened to seize their assets.[5] Ministers were subsequently prosecuted for failing to pay tax,[6] and taxes were deducted from bank accounts.[7]
In September 2017 he advocated for the deportation of foreigners convicted of crimes in Samoa.[8] later that year he opposed the repatriation of Samoans convicted in American Samoa.[9] In early 2018 he faced calls to resign after he released a prisoner to attend a matai ceremony.[10] [11]
In March 2020 Hunt was given responsibility for the Police as well as his existing Corrections portfolio.[12] In July 2020 he called for judicial corporal punishment for rapists.[13] In August 2020 he defended using prison inmates as unpaid labour for "personal projects" such as clearing land belonging to his family.[14]
He lost his seat in the April 2021 Samoan general election.[15]