Australian Political Journalists - Paul Kelly, Padraic McGuinness, Laurie Oakes, Mungo Wentworth MacCallum, Michelle Grattan, Peter Hartcher (Paperback)

Chapters: Paul Kelly, Padraic Mcguinness, Laurie Oakes, Mungo Wentworth Maccallum, Michelle Grattan, Peter Hartcher, Adam Walters, Paul Bongiorno, Christian Kerr, Alan Ramsey, Paul Murray, Phil Doyle, Paul Murphy. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 45. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Padraic Pearse "Paddy" McGuinness AO (27 October 1938 26 January 2008) was an Australian journalist, activist, and commentator. He was notable for the evolution over his lifetime of his political beliefs. Beginning his career on the far left, he subsequently worked as a policy assistant to the more moderate (but still leftist) Labor parliamentarian Bill Hayden (future Governor-General). Later he found fame as a right-wing contrarian and finished his career as the editor of the conservative journal, Quadrant. He had also worked as a columnist for The Australian and The Sydney Morning Herald and as the editor of The Australian Financial Review. McGuinness was born into a fifth-generation Australian family of Irish Catholic heritage. His father, Frank McGuinness (d. 1949), had launched the Sydney newspaper The Daily Mirror in 1941. Padraic attended, first, St Ignatius' College, Riverview (from his time there he dated the atheist attitudes which remained constant in his adult life, whatever his changes of ideological allegiance) and then obtained a scholarship to attend Sydney Boys' High School. He studied economics at Sydney University (B.Ec., Hons, 1960), where he became a prominent member of the Sydney Push in the late 1950s and early 1960s. At this time he identified as an anarchist (he was never a communist), but also joined the Labor Party. After a short career as an economics lecturer at the then N.S.W. University of Technology, McGuinness moved to London where he worked with the Moscow Narodny Bank...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=766942