Someone angling for a position of leadership within a school, often referred to as Prefect. A blue tie hunter will often partake in activities solely for the purpose of being seen as "contributing to the life of school" and racking mad popularity with the teachers. The phrase arises from the blue tie awarded to prefects in a particular Sydney school.
"Mate, you know that guy's doing cadets, the musical, rowing, rugby, choir, band, debating, swimming and athletics."
"Yeah mate, he's a blue tie hunter for sure."
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. PenguinBooks,1992. p. 38)