Paul Kelly (journalist) explained

Paul Kelly
Birth Name:Paul John Kelly
Birth Date:1947 10, df=y
Birth Place:Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Education:University of Sydney
Occupation:Journalist, historian, radio commentator
Children:Joseph, Daniel
Years Active:1971–present

Paul John Kelly (born 11 October 1947) is an Australian political journalist, author and television and radio commentator from Sydney. He has worked in a variety of roles, principally for The Australian newspaper and is currently its editor-at-large. Kelly also appears as a commentator on Sky News Australia and has written seven books on political events in Australia since the 1970s including on the 1975 Australian constitutional crisis. Recent works include The March of Patriots, which chronicles the creation of a modern Australia during the 1991–2007 era of prime ministers, Paul Keating and John Howard, and Triumph & Demise which focuses on the leadership tensions at the heart of the Rudd-Gillard Labor governments of 2007 to 2011.[1] Kelly presented the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) TV documentary series 100 Years – The Australian Story (2001) and wrote a book of the same title.

In 2006, Kelly's work was described by fellow Australian journalists Toby Creswell and Samantha Trenoweth as being "distinguished for his broad and deep grasp of the inter-relationship of economics and political shifts, and his ability to place Australian domestic developments into an international and historical context".[2]

Life and career

Paul John Kelly was born on 11 October 1947 in Sydney, New South Wales.[3] He is the son of Joseph Kelly and Sybil (née Mackenzie). He completed a Bachelor of Arts degree and Diploma of Education at the University of Sydney in 1969.[2] He worked in the Prime Minister's Department in Canberra from 1969 to 1971 before changing to journalism.[4] He is a Doctor of Letters from the University of Melbourne.[5]

He joined the Canberra Press Gallery in 1971 and became chief political correspondent for The Australian from 1974 to 1975.[2] From 1976 to 1978 he was chief political correspondent for The National Times, then its deputy editor from 1978 to 1979. He became chief political correspondent for the Sydney Morning Herald from 1981 to 1984. He returned to The Australian and was its national affairs editor from 1985 to 1991, editor-in-chief from 1991 to 1996 and editor-at-large from 1996 to the present.[4]

Aside from journalism, Kelly has written books describing political developments starting with The Unmaking of Gough (1976) on the Australian constitutional crisis of 1975 and Prime Minister Gough Whitlam (later titled The Dismissal : Australia's Most Sensational Power Struggle : The Dramatic Fall of Gough Whitlam). He has written books on subsequent Prime Ministers, Bob Hawke (The Hawke Ascendency, 1984), Paul Keating (The End of Certainty, 1992) and John Howard (Howard's Decade, 2006). His The March of Patriots: The Struggle for Modern Australia (2009) deals with economic and political developments under Keating and Howard as Australia entered the globalised age.[6] (2014) chronicles the rise and fall of the Australian Labor Party governments of Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard (2007–2013).[7]

His book The Dismissal was used as the basis of the television miniseries The Dismissal shown on Network Ten from 6 March 1983. Kelly is a political commentator on radio and television (including Insiders) and presented the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) TV documentary series, 100 Years – The Australian Story (2001) and wrote a book of the same title.[8]

In November 1991, after the massacres at Santa Cruz (near Dili, East Timor), Kelly had supported Indonesian president Suharto and declared him to be a moderate with no alternative to his rule.[9] Kelly's support for Suharto continued to 1998 and earned criticism from fellow journalist John Pilger who compared it to the appeasement of Hitler in the 1930s.[10]

In November 2012, Kelly criticised the decision of the Gillard government to create the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, calling it "profoundly ignorant" and "a depressing example of populist politics".[11]

Personal life

He is married to Margaret (née Leckie). They have two sons, Joseph and Daniel. Kelly was previously married to Australian Labor Party federal member of Parliament and minister Ros Kelly (née Raw).

Kelly opposed Australia's same-sex marriage legislation, questioning the "real ideology" of the same-sex marriage campaign and its impact on "religious freedom".[12]

Bibliography

Books

Essays and reporting

Critical studies and reviews of Kelly's work

The Dismissal : in the Queen's name
November 1975
The truth of the Palace Letters

Awards

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. https://www.mup.com.au/items/149038#sthash.KB8ux0Ro.dpuf Melbourne University Publishing
  2. Book: 1001 Australians you should know . Creswell . Toby . Toby Creswell . Trenoweth . Samantha . Pluto Press Australia . 2006 . . Media and Journalism . 397 . 978-1-86403-361-8 .
  3. Book: . Crown Content . 2009 . Sullivan . Leanne . 45 . 978-1-74095-166-1 .
  4. Web site: Honorary-award holders – Paul John Kelly . . 14 May 2009 . 10 August 2010.
  5. Web site: Paul Kelly – Lowy Institute Staff Member . . 12 August 2010 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20101125003257/http://lowyinstitute.org/StaffBio.asp?pid=468 . 25 November 2010 .
  6. Web site: The March of Patriots . LawBooks (Emporium Retail Group) . 2009 . 12 August 2010 . dead . https://archive.today/20121230173507/http://www.lawbooks.com.au/book/the-keating-howard-years.do . 30 December 2012 .
  7. News: Rosie . Lewis . Government's age of reform isn't over, just interrupted, says Abbott . . 26 August 2014 .
  8. Web site: The Dismissal – Paul Kelly 1983 Paperback Used – TV tie-in . Australian Politics Books . 12 August 2010 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110707191017/http://www.australian-politics-books.com/ccp0-prodshow/the-dismissal-paul-kelly-1975-tv.html . 7 July 2011 . dead .
  9. News: In Praise of Soeharto the Despot . . 13 February 2005 . 12 August 2010.
  10. News: Chomskyist-Pilgerism . Outlook . Maheshwer Peri (The Outlook Group) . 28 January 2004 . 12 August 2010 .
  11. News: Kelly. Paul. Commission on child abuse a depressing example of populist politics . The Australian. 17 November 2012.
  12. News: Kelly . Paul . The same-sex marriage debate and the right to religious belief . Weekend Australian . 11 July 2015 . https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20180426145140/https://www.theaustralian.com.au/opinion/columnists/paul-kelly/the-samesex-marriage-debate-and-the-right-to-religious-belief/news-story/afa691ddc161f0e4fb9385513c1be2b2 . 26 April 2018 . 16.
  13. Previously published as The unmaking of Gough.
  14. Web site: Ethics, politics and democracy : held in the Banco Court of New South Wales Queen's Square, Sydney, Tuesday 10 December 1996 / delivered by Paul Kelly . catalogue . . 11 August 2010.
  15. An edited version of the Neville Bonner Oration, 2015.
  16. Web site: Award recognises journalistic excellence. 6 May 2010. The Age. 30 March 2019.
  17. Web site: Walkley Winners Archive. The Walkley Foundation. 30 March 2019.
  18. Web site: Citation – Paul Kelly . University of Melbourne . 2005 . 12 August 2010 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110220230825/http://www.asialink.unimelb.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0003/26292/citation_paul_kelly.pdf . 20 February 2011.
  19. Web site: 2014-12-04. DT Editor Paul Whittaker picks up third Walkley. 2020-10-25. PerthNow. en.

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